AUSTRALIA
The Guardian (UK)
Australian Associated Press
theguardian.com, Friday 13 December 2013
A little girl who ran and told a nun after she had been touched by a priest “got a belting” for casting aspersions on the man, an inquiry has heard.
Internal Catholic church records show the man, Father Paul Rex Brown, would later be dumped from his priestly duties following a litany of complaints.
They included claims he was a drunk and that he sexually abused two boys in the 1980s.
Evidence before the Royal Commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse shows he has been implicated in the alleged abuse of at least six children.
But his only criminal conviction before his death in 2005 related to possession of child porn.
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