AUSTRALIA
Leader
December 3, 2015
Chad Van Estrop
Melbourne Leader
A FORMER principal of St James primary, North Richmond was told to supervise the school’s parish priest near children, as he continued working, amid allegations of child sexual abuse in the early 1990s, the Royal Commission has heard.
Patricia Taylor told the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sex Abuse this week she was warned about Father Wilfred Baker during an “off the record” meeting with the Catholic Education Office in 1992.
Ms Taylor said she was also told by the office to prevent children from being in confessional rooms with Baker and never be alone with him.
Ms Taylor told the commission she felt “abandoned” and “vulnerable” when dealing with Baker.
“I was charged with protecting a community from someone who was known to have fairly serious allegations made against them,” Ms Taylor said.
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