AUSTRALIA
Broken Rites
By a Broken Rites researcher (article updated 17 September 2015)
A Catholic former religious Brother, Edward Mamo, who has already spent time in jail, pleaded guilty again in the Melbourne Magistrates Court on 11 September 2015 after 15 more of his victims contacted Broken Rites and/or the Victoria Police. The guilty plea is for 28 additional indecent assaults, committed while Brother Mamo worked at Monivae College, a Catholic secondary school, at Hamilton, 290 kilometres west of Melbourne, in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Mamo has also worked at Chevalier College in Bowral, New South Wales, but the Victorian court case is only for Victorian offences.
Mamo’s case will be transferred now to a higher court, the Melbourne County Court, where a judge is scheduled to begin pre-sentence procedures for Mamo in December 2015.
Monivae College was established by a religious order, the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart. This order is known by its Latin initials, MSC. Monivae College was originally for boys only, including boarders as well as day boys. It has since become co-educational.
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