AUSTRALIA
Broken Rites
By a Broken Rites reseacher (article updated 18 April 2014)
Australians may soon learn more about how the Catholic Church protected the paedophile priest Terrence Pidoto for 25 years while he committed crimes against boys in his parishes. Pidoto, who is in jail, will be interviewed by police again in 2014 because more of his alleged victims have come forward. This Broken Rites article is the most comprehensive account available about the Pidoto cover-up.
In 2014 Pidoto is reaching the end of a seven-year jail sentence for crimes that he committed durng his priestly career in the Melbourne Catholic archdiocese.
On 17 April 2014, a Melbourne magistrate granted permission to detectives from the Victoria Police sex crime squad to interview Pidoto in jail for four hours about some new allegations.
The detectives are from a special unit, Taskforce Sano, which was established to investigate historical and new allegations that have emanated from the Victorian Parliamentary inquiry into child sex abuse.
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