AUSTRALIA
Sydney Morning Herald
[with video]
October 16, 2014
Rory Callinan
Investigative journalist
A Catholic priest who was allowed to continue preaching in Papua New Guinea despite being named in child abuse compensation settlements has been deported to Australia and is likely to face being extradited from Queensland to Victoria.
Earlier this month, Fairfax Media revealed how Father Roger Mount was still being allowed to minister at a remote parish in PNG despite being named in the Catholic church documents as an alleged child abuser of boys in homes in Victoria and NSW.
Following more revelations that Mount had been living in the country illegally without a visa for the past three years, the PNG Government on Wednesday deported him to Cairns.
The 72-year-old Catholic priest had been alleged to have abused children when he was working as Brother Gabriel with the Catholic St John of God Order at a home for intellectually disabled boys at Kendall Grange in Morisset, about 65km north of Sydney, and at boys homes in Victoria run by the same order.
Legal documents obtained by Fairfax reveal at least two boys from the homes had successfully sought apologies and compensation payments after they reported the abuse to the St John of God Order in the 1990s and the 2000s.
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