AUSTRALIA
The Age
Richard Baker and Nick McKenzie
June 6, 2012
MELBOURNE’S Catholic archdiocese permitted a priest charged with child sex offences to be the ”spiritual director” to another priest accused of child molestation.
The revelation is contained in confidential Catholic Church documents obtained by The Age that provide an insight into the archdiocese’s handling of child sex abuse cases.
Click here to read a response from a spokesman for the Melbourne Archdiocese.
The documents show how senior church leaders continued to shield Father Victor Rubeo from scrutiny after child sex abuse allegations about him were first reported to the archdiocese in 1994.
Rubeo, who did not deny the allegations when questioned by a senior church official, was allowed to continue preaching in Melbourne’s Boronia parish without his parishioners or police being told of his child abuse.
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