AUSTRALIA
The Age
November 12, 2012
Barney Zwartz
A VICTIMS’ group has uncovered the trail of 18 paedophile priests moved around the Catholic Church in Victoria from parish to parish or further away, where they continued offending.
Helen Last of In Good Faith, a consultant for the Melbourne Victims Collective, will present the evidence on Monday to the state inquiry into how the churches handled sex abuse by priests.
The list was far from complete but comprised men convicted in criminal courts or found by the church’s own investigation to have had credible complaints made against them, Ms Last said on Sunday.
”The church has known through its pastoral appointments board and its bishops that there have been problems with the conduct of all these priests previously reported to them.” …
Father Barry Robinson, who admitted having sex with a teenager in the rectory of his church in the US in 1994 and was returned to Australia when police were about to interview him, was assistant priest at Williamstown and even last year the church attempted to place him as a relief priest at Healesville – a parish that has had several problem priests – but parishioners protested.
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