AUSTRALIA
NEWS.com.au
SHANNON DEERY
Herald Sun
October 09, 2013
THE former principal of a Catholic boys school stood and watched as his deputy sexually abused a young student, a court has heard.
The principal, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was one of a circle of alleged Salesian priests in charge of the order’s Sunbury college, Rupertswood.
He later went on to become one of the Salesian’s highest ranked officials. At a pre-sentence hearing for former vice-principal David Edwin Rapson today new details of a shocking culture of pedophilia at the school emerged.
The court heard the disturbing culture helped transform Rapson, 60, from a “low level pedophile” into a “sadistic” abuser.
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