AUSTRALIA
Hobsons Bay Weekly
By GOYA DMYTRYSHCHAK
Dec. 4, 2012
VICTIM of paedophile Catholic priest Victor Rubeo has come forward to praise moves to change the Altona Meadows street name that honours the man she labels a ‘‘psychopathic monster’’.
Marie, who asked that only her first name be used, said she had written to Hobsons Bay Council in a bid to find out if Rubeo Avenue was named after the priest, who she says first abused her when she was five.
In October 1996, Rubeo pleaded guilty in the Ringwood Magistrates Court to two counts of indecent assault against Tony Hersbach and his twin brother Will, committed at Laverton in 1967 when the boys were 14. Rubeo, 78, died last December 16, the day he was meant to front a committal hearing in the Melbourne Magistrates Court on 30 new child sex abuse charges committed against the Hersbach twins.
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