AUSTRALIA
SBS
12 SEP 2016
A Catholic priest was given “a new start” at a NSW parish despite being under a cloud of child sex abuse complaints, a royal commission has heard.
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse was told that John Joseph Farrell, 62, was appointed to a clergy position at Tamworth east in 1984, not long after he’d left the Moree parish because of complaints he’d sexually abused a number of boys.
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