AUSTRALIA
Sydney Morning Herald
November 25, 2012
Paul Bibby, Rory Callinan
HE WAS dubbed the playboy rapist – a male model and occasional actor whose seductive charms hid a violent, narcissistic streak that eventually caused him to be jailed in 2009 for more than seven years over the brutal rape of a woman in the eastern suburbs.
But now Simon Monteiro claims that, years before he cut a swathe through Sydney’s high-society women, it was he who was the victim of violence and sexual abuse, at the hands of the notorious Catholic Church order, the St John of God.
And he says this abuse left him so traumatised he has been unable to have ”meaningful relationships” with women because of his ”inability to deal with conflict”.
Simon Monteiro, who has accused McGrath’s order of abusing him. Photo: Julian Andrews
Monteiro, 45, who once dated Oscar nominee Barbara Hershey, is suing the order and three of its brothers in the Supreme Court for at least $750,000 in damages over what he claims were years of rape, intimidation and abuse.
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