AUSTRALIA
Sky News
Melbourne Archbishop Denis Hart admits he should have done more to protect children from a paedophile priest who hit an altar boy.
A complaint that Fr Peter Searson hit the boy around the head following mass went to Archbishop Hart, then the Melbourne archdiocese vicar-general, in October 1996.
He told Searson not to go near altar servers and referred the complaint to the Melbourne Response independent commissioner, who a few days later began to handle sex abuse complaints in the archdiocese.
Child abuse royal commission chair Justice Peter McClellan said having reviewed Searson’s file, Archbishop Hart would have realised it was not only altar servers who were in danger.
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