AUSTRALIA
Busselton Mail

Andrew Elstermann
@AElstermann

12 Jul 2017

Documents tendered to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in February have revealed that in 1959, Bunbury Bishop John Goody agreed to hire a priest despite knowing he had previously sexually abused a number of boys.

In June 1958, Father William Kevin Glover was removed as a superior and parish priest in Victoria for “immoral and criminal sexual behaviour with boys and male adolescents”.

He was given a formal canonical warning and sent to do a 30 day penitential retreat in Armidale, NSW.

Having been assigned a new parish, Glover was brought to Sydney in July 1959 and given a second canonical warning for committing similar offences.

He was sent to St John of God Hospital at Richmond while attempts were made to see if another Marist Province would be willing to accept him.

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