AUSTRALIA
The Age
October 18, 2012
Barney Zwartz
THE Catholic Church has stood down a priest in Melbourne’s eastern suburbs while it investigates serious allegations of child sexual abuse.
Father Peter Grasby, parish priest of St Mary Magdalen, Jordanville, near Chadstone, was put on administrative leave on August 31, and the parishioners and school families were notified by letter the next weekend.
The allegations are about incidents more than 30 years ago in another parish involving a boy aged 10 to 14 at the time.
Monsignor Greg Bennet, vicar-general of the Melbourne archdiocese, told The Age that Father Grasby was helping independent commissioner Jeff Gleeson, QC, in his inquiries, and that he denied the allegations.
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