AUSTRALIA
The Australian
Shannon Deery
From:Herald Sun
November 13, 2012
A FORMER vice-principal of a Catholic boys school embroiled in one of the state’s biggest alleged child sex abuse cover-ups has faced court charged with abusing seven boys.
Former priest David Rapson appeared at the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court today charged with abusing the boys while teaching at Salesian College Rupertswood, in Sunbury, between 1973 and 1990.
Rapson is charged with one count each of rape and gross indecency and a string of indecent assault charges.
The Herald Sun revealed last year up to seven priests and brothers at the college have been linked to secret payouts to students who alleged they were abused between the 1960s and the 1990s.
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