AUSTRALIA
NEWS.com.au
SCHOOLTEACHER Joan Isaacs yesterday claimed a Catholic priest ran a cult-like group sexually abusing young girls and gave them the surname Brown, as in Charlie Brown from the Peanuts comic.
Her voice wavering, Ms Isaacs told the royal commission into institutionalised responses to child sex abuse in Sydney how one member of the Brown group had Father Frank Derriman’s baby while the priest told them that if they loved God, it was OK to have sex with him because he was God’s representative.
He lied that he was terminally ill and wanted to have sex before he died. During holy communion, he put his fingers in her mouth, she said.
“Frank Derriman used the Peanut comic as a platform and used the surname Brown in reference to himself, the other three children and me,’’ Mrs Isaacs, who was known as Junkie Brown, said.
“(He) created a cult-like group which included myself and three other children.”
She said that his actions would now be called grooming.
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