Authorities in Australia on Monday arrested and charged veteran radio broadcaster and former national rugby team coach Alan Jones for sexually abusing seven adults and a 17-year-old over a two-decade span.

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,

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.