AUSTRALIA
Illawarra Mercury
SHANNON TONKIN
May 24, 2016
Peter Lewis Comensoli had kept his hideous secret for more than 50 years.
On Tuesday, it finally came out.
The former Catholic priest got to his feet in Wollongong District Court and, in a loud, clear voice that belied his frail body, admitted molesting three teenage boys in the 1960s.
His victims, each of them practising Catholics, had looked to Comensoli for spiritual and personal guidance, only for their faith in him to be exploited in the worst possible way.
He molested one boy, aged just 11, while visiting the child’s family at their Ingleburn home sometime between 1966 and 1968.
The boy, now a man approaching 60, recalled Comensoli squeezing his genitals while they were playing a wrestling game together.
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