AUSTRALIA
ABC News
[with video]
By court reporter Sarah Farnsworth
The Melbourne Magistrates Court has heard a former Catholic priest accused of abusing boys told another priest “you know what we do here”.
David Rapson was a former teacher and vice-principal at the Salesian College Rupertswood in Sunbury, north of Melbourne, when it is alleged he abused seven boys.
In a statement tendered in court at a committal hearing, an alleged victim said he had spent the night in the infirmary in the late 1970s when several boys were brought in.
“I remember thinking how strange it was that everyone got sick at the same time,” he said.
The court heard Rapson then gave the boys a hot drink, forcing it on them if they refused.
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