AUSTRALIA
Daily Telegraph
AAP
July 03, 2012
The Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney says it’s investigating a 1992 meeting between senior priests who removed a fellow priest from public ministry, following media reports that admissions of sexual abuse were made during that meeting but never referred to police.
A FORMER Catholic priest, identified only as Father F, was sacked by the church in 2005 after serious sexual abuse allegations but has since become a prominent citizen in the NSW town of Armidale, the ABC reported on Monday.
The ABC said Father F raped young boys in Moree in the 1980s before being transferred to a parish in Parramatta where he continued to sodomise altar boys.
Some of the youths he raped went on to lead tortured lives before committing suicide, the ABC reported.
The ABC said Father F made clear admissions of abuse to three senior priests during a meeting at St Mary’s Cathedral in Sydney in September 1992.
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