WARRNAMBOOL (AUSTRALIA)
The Standard
July 22, 2018
By Rachael Houlihan
A south-west survivor of child sex abuse says a Warrnambool Street honouring a senior Catholic priest should be renamed.
The survivor, who cannot be named for legal reasons, says Fiscalini Drive in the Toohey Estate should be changed. She said she told Monsignor Leo Fiscalini she was being sexually abused in 1972 and he accused her of “telling lies” and left her in the care of her abuser.
“The County Court of Victoria has accepted my evidence as truthful, jailing my abuser last year,” she said.
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuses acknowledged Fiscalini and Bishop Ronald Mulkearns knew of a complaint Gerald Ridsdale had sexually molested a boy in Mortlake, yet they permitted him to continue working in the area.
Fiscalini instigated the purchase of the land in 1973 where the street now runs.
The woman contacted The Standard after last week reading about Emmanuel College’s decision to erect a plaque acknowledging child sex abuse within the church and that it should never happen again.
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