AUSTRALIA
Herald Sun
PATRICK CARUANA AAP AUGUST 26, 2013
A VICTORIAN priest abused eight different boys and assumed he would get away with it, a court has been told.
Salesian priest David Edwin Rapson has pleaded not guilty to eight charges of indecent assault and five counts of rape at Lysterfield College and Rupertswood College between the 1970s and 1990.
Prosecutor David Cordy told the Victorian County Court that the crown’s case against Rapson relied heavily on the testimony of the eight alleged victims.
Mr Cordy said Rapson had abused the boys, sometimes with witnesses around, and assumed he would get away with it.
“You can imagine just the relative power … between the parties,” Mr Cordy told the jury on Monday.
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