AUSTRALIA
Armidale Express
By STEPHEN JEFFERY
Jan. 17, 2013
A NEW report has made damning findings against the Catholic Church’s handling of child sex abuse allegations leveled at a former priest in the Armidale diocese during the 1980s.
The independent report, compiled by former federal court judge Antony Whitlam QC, found former Armidale Bishop Henry Kennedy failed to act on repeated allegations against the former priest, known by court order only as “F”.
F was abruptly moved from the Moree parish to East Tamworth in 1984, though no contemporary records explaining his departure have been found.
While F was taken to see psychologist Gary Boyle in East Tamworth, Mr Whitlam claimed he “was never given any version of the circumstances surrounding F’s removal from the parish in Moree except by F himself”.
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