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Australian Priest in Kuching to Look for ‘young Asian Men’

By P. Divakaran
The Star
February 11, 2016

http://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2016/02/11/report-australian-priest-in-kuching-to-look-for-young-asian-men/

The famous cat statue near Padungan is famous tourism spot in Sarawak. File PIX.

PETALING JAYA: A priest from Melbourne who is accused of child sexual abuse is reported to have moved to Malaysia to look for “young Asian men” while on paid leave.

The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) said Wednesday that Father Peter Grasby had allegedly moved from Australia to Kuching, and was seeking the company of young men on a gay dating website.

The report said that Grasby’s profile on website Planetromeo showed that the 66-year-old “happens to like younger Asian men” aged between 18 and 35.

The profile, which has been visited 7,907 times, also listed details about his sexual preferences, and that he was “well-educated and really soft hearted mature GWM (gay-white male)”, said the report.

It said that Grasby’s profile indicated that he had allegedly travelled to Kuching on Jan 23.

The former parish priest of St Mary Magdalen in Jordanville was placed on administrative leave in 2012 after he was allegedly accused of abusing a boy in another parish almost three decades earlier.

He was also accused in a Victorian parliamentary inquiry of allowing boys to sleep in his former presbytery at St Michael’s in North Melbourne and allegedly surrounding himself with a number of Vietnamese boys at St Mary Magdalen, reported SMH.

Grasby is suspected of abusing boys from at least two Melbourne parishes during his almost 40-year career as a priest.

Priests on administrative leave are given housing, or housing allowances and the same wages and insurance benefits they had been paid prior to the complaint against them.

 

 

 

 

 




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