AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By Emma Younger
A Catholic priest drugged a student with a sedative-laced soft drink before raping him in his office at a boarding school in Melbourne’s outer north-west almost 30 years ago, a court has been told.
Michael Aulsebrook, 60, is on trial in the Victorian County Court for raping a Year 7 student at Salesian College in Rupertswood in Sunbury in the late 1980s.
He was working as a teacher and boarding co-ordinator at the college at the time.
Aulsebrook has pleaded not guilty.
Prosecutor Andrew Grant told the jury Aulsebrook invited the boy into his office to play computer games one night after the other boarders had gone to bed.
After about half an hour, the boy was given a glass of soft drink and he passed out, he said.
The jury was told the boy woke up to find Aulsebrook raping him on the floor of the office.
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