AUSTRALIA
The Age
November 14, 2012
Mark Russell
As former Catholic priest David Rapson began to abuse boys one night at the Salesian College Rupertswood, he told another priest who was urging him to resist the temptation: “God made us this way and it’s his fault”, a court heard today.
One of Rapson’s alleged victims claimed the priest had given a number of boys a cup of Milo which had an acrid taste before abusing them.
Rapson, 59, has been 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 for alleged offences between 1973 to 1990.
Rapson had been a teacher and former vice-principal at Rupertswood.
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