Plea Hearing for Paedophile Priest Robert Claffey in County Court

By Shannon Deery
Herald Sun
September 19, 2016

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ANOTHER serial paedophile priest is behind bars with victims saying he could be among Australia’s most prolific child sexual abusers.

Robert Claffey was today compared with Australia’s worst paedophile priest, Gerald Ridsdale, with one of his victims saying he was even more cunning.

Claffey, who has admitted molesting 14 kids, and Ridsdale, who says his victims number hundreds, worked together in the Catholic Church’s Ballarat diocese.

When Ridsdale was moved from the diocese’s Apollo Bay parish for abusing kids, Claffey replaced him.