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	Catholic Priest Charged with Sodomy By Keregero Keregero IPPMedia [Tanzania] May 25, 2005 A Roman Catholic priest, Sixtus Kimaro, appeared before a Dar es Salaam court yesterday to answer charges of having unnatural carnal knowledge of a 17-year-old boy. The clergyman was arraigned before Principal Resident Magistrate Pellagia Khadaya of Kisutu Resident Magistrate court to answer the charge. Kimaro is stationed at Mlandizi in Coast Region, where, prior to his arrest and subsequent suspension by the church from conducting religious matters, he was the parish priest. According to the prosecution, the accused is alleged to have had carnal knowledge of a 17-year-old boy on the night of May 19. The prosecution told the court that the accused committed the offence in a vehicle at a dumping site near the University of Dar es Salaam. The vehicle belongs to the church. Police and the university's guards caught the priest in the act and arrested him. The court declined to grant bail to the accused for security reasons. The court was of the view that bail would endanger the priest's life as he risked being attacked by the public.