Abuser priest laughed after confessing

Sky News
November 24, 2015

http://www.9news.com.au/national/2015/11/24/15/55/priest-confessed-to-abuse-then-laughed

A Melbourne pedophile priest used confession to get absolution for his crimes. Then he laughed.

The priest found out his victim had told Father Philip O'Donnell about the abuse.

He turned up at 8am the next day, sat down and then dropped on his knees and went into confessional mode, Mr O'Donnell said.

"I gave absolution, and as he walked out the door he laughed at me. In other words, he had made sure that I couldn't speak to anyone," the former priest told the child abuse royal commission on Tuesday.

"I felt totally entrapped by that situation; that he had found out that I'd been told, he came to me, put himself in a confessional situation that therefore took me out.

"My only joy was that he was convicted without me being involved."