AUSTRALIA
Brimbank Weekly
By Mark Russell
Nov. 13, 2012
A FORMER Catholic priest has appeared in court today accused of sexually abusing boys at the Salesian College Rupertswood in Sunbury.
David Edwin Rapson, 59, appeared in the Melbourne Magistrates Court charged with one count of rape, five counts of indecent assault, four counts of indecently assaulting a child under 16, and one count of gross indecency between 1973 to 1990.
Rapson had been a teacher and former vice-principal at Rupertswood.
Prosecutor Anne Hassan told the court the charges against Rapson involved seven complainants who had been aged in their early teens at the time of the alleged abuse.
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