AUSTRALIA
Daily Mail
By BELINDA CLEARY FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA
PUBLISHED: 17:20 EST, 1 July 2016
A former priest has won the right to work with children in his retirement despite being accused of molesting two teenage girls in the 1980s.
The former Australian priest, 68, was banned from working with children in 2014 when the Children’s Guardian found the historical allegations relating to two Aboriginal sisters.
He launched an appeal and won – because no police report had been filed over the alleged assaults, Newscorp reports.
During the appeals process the man was allowed to continue working with children even though he had previously been banned.
The Children’s Guardian found workplace reports accusing the priest, known only as BQV, of theft and alcoholism.
Investigations into the clergyman also found he was part of the church’s Encompass program which has been known to shield paedophiles.
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