AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By David Marchese
A notorious paedophile priest who molested dozens of boys raised concerns about his sexual attraction to children before entering the seminary, the child abuse royal commission has heard.
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse hearing in Newcastle is investigating the Catholic Church’s response to widespread paedophilia in the Maitland-Newcastle diocese.
Much of the probe is focusing on the abuse by paedophile priest Vincent Ryan, who has already served 14 years in jail for abusing boys between 1972 and 1991.
He was released from jail in 2010 and is currently awaiting sentencing on separate child sex offences.
Giving evidence today, Sister Evelyn Woodward was questioned about her knowledge of abuse carried out by Ryan on altar boys and about whom she told in the church hierarchy.
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