AUSTRALIA
The West Australian
Gary Adshead, The West Australian
Updated November 17, 2012
Reverend Michael Painter didn’t stay long after laying 13-year-old David Dossett to rest during a small but gut-wrenching funeral service at Karrakatta in 1976.
The boy’s mother Margaret assumed the family priest, who she says had taken David on youth group trips, found it too upsetting.
Almost two decades later she learnt the real reason Painter disappeared early on that terrible day. He was a shame- ridden paedophile who robbed David of his innocence and drove him to suicide.
Mrs Dossett’s memory of the circumstances surrounding David’s death was vivid.
She knew the names of the constables who were at the bush site in Thornlie where David was found at 4.50pm on August 12, 1976, having been lying unconscious and out of sight all day.
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