AUSTRALIA
Broken Rites
By a Broken Rites researcher (article updated 1 January 2014)
Notorious Australian paedophile priest Michael Charles Glennon has died in jail after Broken Rites referred more Glennon victims to the police.
For twenty years, Broken Rites has been researching Glennon’s life of crime. We have also interviewed some of his victims, who helped to bring him to justice in his various court appearances.
In recent years, more Glennon victims have contacted Broken Rites and in 2013 we arranged for these to have a chat with detectives in the Sano Taskforce in the Victoria Police sex-crimes squad.
Originally, when the Catholic Church ordained Father Michael Glennon as a priest for the Melbourne Archdiocese, it gave him easy access to children.
By the year 2003, Fr Michael Glennon had been convicted five times (and was serving a long jail sentence) for child-sex offences, involving a long list of children, mostly boys. However, these were not his only victims — they were merely those who eventually spoke to the police. The world will never know exactly how many children Father Glennon abused. Even Glennon himself would have lost count of the real number.
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