AUSTRALIA
Moree Champion
05 Jul, 2012
The Catholic Church has reopened inquiries into what was claimed as a cover-up of investigations into allegations of sexual abuse.
Known as Father F, the former priest was accused of sexually abusing young boys in Moree in the early 1980s.
Now living as a prominent member of the community in Armidale, Father F was arrested in 1987 and brought to trial but the matter was dismissed by a magistrate because he judged the alleged victim Damian Jurd, then 15, as a witness whose credibility did not match that of the priest.
Father F was allowed to continue as a priest in Parramatta where he allegedly molested more alter boys.
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