AUSTRALIA
ABC News
[with video]
By Jean Edwards
Two former Catholic school teachers have broken their silence about sex abuse in the Doveton parish in Melbourne’s south-east.
They say the church hierarchy covered up or ignored their repeated pleas for something to be done about a predatory priest.
Graeme Sleeman, a former school principal and teacher, resigned from his job in the mid-1980s in a desperate bid to force the church to stop Father Peter Searson from sexually abusing children at the Holy Family School.
“I was contemplating suicide because I did not see a way out of the problem that the church had created,” he said.
“I’d stood up for the rights of children. I’d stood up for the right of the church and I’d been cast aside.
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