AUSTRALIA
ABC – PM
Thomas Oriti reported this story on Thursday, September 1, 2016
A hearing examining the Catholic Church has been told that a convicted serial paedophile revealed his sexual attraction to children even before he was ordained as a priest.
Vincent Ryan abused more than 30 children during his time in the Maitland-Newcastle Diocese in New South Wales.
But today’s evidence shows there were red flags about the man’s behaviour decades before he was arrested.
And in a disturbing development, one of Ryan’s victims has testified that he too molested a child, landing him in the same jail as the priest.
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