NEW SOUTH WALES (AUSTRALIA)
The Australian
Dec. 23, 2019
By Nicola Berkovic
Complaints about a sadistic Catholic pedophile were “a factor” in a decision to move him from South Australia to NSW, where he went on to abuse boys at one of Sydney’s leading schools.
A long-awaited report by former Victorian Supreme Court chief justice Marilyn Warren has found that at least three complaints were made about serial offender and former Jesuit brother Victor Higgs before he was moved interstate.
The complaints were made to the then head of school and rector, Father Frank Wallace, regarding Higgs’s conduct at St Ignatius College in Athelstone, in Adelaide’s east, according to a summary of the report.
The substance of at least some of those complaints was conveyed to the then Provincial, Father Francis Peter Kelly, the head of the Jesuits in Australia at the time.
Higgs was then transferred in 1970 to the prestigious St Ignatius College Riverview in Sydney.
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