AUSTRALIA
Northern Star
9th July 2012
THE alleged paedophile priest dubbed Father F who featured on the ABC’s Four Corners program on Monday twice visited a former Lismore priest at Tweed Heads also accused of child abuse.
The Northern Star has learnt that Father F, as he is known for legal reasons, visited Father Paul Rex Brown at his Tweed Heads rectory in the early 80s and in 1987.
Father Brown, who died in 2005 and was convicted of child pornography offences in 1996, was accused by former street kid Eric Fleissig of abusing him at Tweed Heads’ Futcher House youth refuge between 1982 and 1985.
Mr Fleissig could not be contacted this week but he told The Northern Star in 2008 that he reported Father Brown’s abuse to church officials at the time who interrogated him and another boy before asking them to leave the church’s care.
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