Aboriginal Wandering Mission: Third Man Charged over Sex Offences

By Victoria Laurie
The Australian
May 10, 2017

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Another former teacher at the isolated Wandering Aboriginal Mission was last night charged with a string of offences spanning more than forty years.

The man, who is now 83 years old, is accused of sexually abusing five girls who were aged between nine and 13 years at the time of the offences.

He is the third man who worked at the Pallottine-run mission, which has since closed, to be charged this month by Child Abuse Squad detectives in Perth. A former teacher, now aged 82, and a former priest, aged 78, have already been charged with sex offences against girls aged between 8 and 15.

The charges have emerged from ongoing investigations stemming from the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, which identified historic and persistent child sex offences occurring at the Wandering Mission and other locations within Western Australia.