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By Rebekah Ison – AAP on September 2, 2016
A psychiatrist who assessed a now-notorious NSW pedophile priest in the 1970s noted he was “OK with children and gets on well with them”.
Father Vincent Ryan, who abused children for decades before his arrest in 1995, was sent to Melbourne psychiatrist and then-priest Dr Peter Evans after Newcastle altar boys made complaints in 1975.
In notes, Dr Evans described Ryan, whose 1975 victims were 10-to-12-years-old, as being attracted to adolescents.
“He’s OK with children and gets on well with them,” the notes read to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse said.
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