AUSTRALIA
The Courier
Melissa Cunningham
@MeljCunningham
3 Mar 2017
Paul Levey has never been back to Mortlake.
Not since he was sexually abused at the hands of disgraced paedophile priest Gerald Ridsdale at the age of 14, while living with him at presbytery in the small western Victorian town in 1982.
“I don’t think I could ever bring myself to go back there,” he said.
“I only have horrible memories.”
Mr Levey was said he’d been left “gutted” to learn there were still plaques in south-western Victorian Catholic schools and churches honouring disgraced former Bishop of Ballarat Ronald Mulkearns.
Bishop Mulkearns was among a number of clergy who knew Ridsdale had a boy living with him, but failed to intervene.
Mr Levey welcomed a move by Warrnambool’s St Joseph’s Primary School to review whether to retain a plaque with the name of the disgraced former Bishop Mulkearns.
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