AUSTRALIA
Bunbury Mail
Andrew Elstermann
@AElstermann
29 Aug 2017
Twenty years after Alan Rowe first approached the Catholic Church seeking an apology for alleged sexual abuse by a priest in Bunbury, he is set to file writs against the Catholic Diocese of Bunbury in the New South Wales Supreme Court.
Mr Rowe was an altar boy at St Patrick’s Cathedral in the late 1960s and early 1970s. He claims that Father Kevin Johnston, one of the parish priests, abused him on about 12 separate occasions.
“Father Johnston would come to me when we were in the sacristy together and changing into our robes for the service,” he said.
“He would fondle me and make me touch his genitals too.
“I recall that Father Johnston used to say once he was finished with me that if I was to say anything about this, I’d be in a lot of trouble.”
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