The retired radio host, who was granted bail after being arrested, was accused of abusing eight victims over nearly 20 years.

Australian police on Monday charged former radio show host Alan Jones with 24 assault and sexual touching offenses, indictments that followed accusations in a newspaper that Jones had assaulted young men for decades.

Alan Jones, the veteran Australian radio broadcaster, has been charged with two dozen offences of sexual and indecent assault. The 83-year-old was taken into custody at his Sydney apartment early on Monday morning,

Veteran Australian broadcaster Alan Jones was charged on Monday with two dozen offenses of sexual and indecent assault. The alleged crimes go back some 20 years. Jones was arrested at his home in Sydney on Monday morning by New South Wales police and taken to the police station,

Alan Jones has been charged by police over allegations the radio broadcaster and former Wallabies coach indecently assaulted, groped or inappropriately touched young men spanning two decades.

Alan Jones, 83, was arrested and charged with 14 sexual offenses spanning two decades in Sydney on Monday, Nov. 18, the New South Wales Police announced in a news release.

Australian police on Monday charged former radio show host Alan Jones with 24 assault and sexual touching offences, indictments that followed accusations in a newspaper that Jones had assaulted young men for decades.

Veteran Australian broadcaster and former Wallabies coach Alan Jones has been arrested after an investigation into a series of sexual abuse allegations, local media have reported. New South Wales Police said detectives from the Child Abuse Squad took an 83-year-old man into custody at an apartment in Sydney's Circular Quay early on Monday morning,