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December 9, 2015

A retired Victorian Catholic vicar-general says he should have challenged the appointment of an accused pedophile priest to another parish.

Monsignor John Day was accused in 1971 and 1972 of indecently assaulting children while the parish priest in Mildura, the Diocese of Ballarat’s northern-most parish, but he was not charged.

After a year off, Day was appointed parish priest of Timboon in the far south of the Ballarat diocese, which covers the western third of Victoria.

Then Ballarat diocese vicar-general Fr Frank Madden said he could not remember the January 1973 College of Consultors meeting approving the Timboon appointment.