AUSTRALIA
The West Australian
Luke Eliot, The West Australian
November 15, 2012,
A leaked document shows Emeritus Archbishop Barry Hickey rejected recommendations when he was Archbishop of Perth to move a priest accused of child sex abuse to a ministry without a school.
The West Australian has obtained a confidential document written by Archbishop Hickey, who retired this year. It referred to Father Richard Joseph Doyle, who is now retired.
The report was signed in June 2000 and was a response to an internal assessment regarding Father Doyle, who, it stated, was the subject of child sex abuse allegations.
The assessment found there was no evidence to support a claim that a “small boy” was abused in Bruce Rock but that “on the balance of probabilities there are grounds to the complaint in respect of the girls”, relating to women who said Father Doyle dealt with them inappropriately when they were children.
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