AUSTRALIA
WA Today
August 30, 2013
Patrick Caruana
AAP
For more than a decade, Catholic priest, teacher and vice principal David Edwin Rapson raped and sexually abused a number of Victorian schoolchildren.
Decades after committing the abuse, 60-year-old Rapson has been found guilty of indecently assaulting eight boys.
Rapson, who was defrocked by Pope John Paul II after his first sexual abuse conviction, abused the boys during his time at Salesian College’s Lysterfield and Rupertswood campuses between the 1970s and 1990.
He denied the allegations but a jury on Friday found him guilty of all five charges of rape and eight counts of indecent assault.
During his nine-day trial in the Victorian County Court, prosecutor David Cordy said Rapson had abused the boys, sometimes with witnesses around, and thought he could not be held accountable.
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