AUSTRALIA
ABC News
A former NSW priest was shifted out of the priesthood and the state after complaints he was grabbing boys by the genitals and squeezing, a retired Bishop has told the child abuse royal commission.
Geoffrey Robinson, a key player in the church’s response to child sexual abuse by members of the clergy between 1994 and 2003, is giving evidence today before the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in Sydney.
Bishop Robinson said that shortly after he became a priest in the 1960s in Croydon, he was told of the actions of the fellow priest, referred to by the inquiry as TS.
“This priest was about three years senior to myself,” Bishop Robinson said.
“He was not the brightest student in the [seminary], but he was probably the strongest.
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