AUSTRALIA
Broken Rites
By a Broken Rites researcher (article updated 11 December 2015)
A former Catholic religious Brother, Edward Mamo, who had already spent time in jail, was jailed again in Melbourne on 11 December 2015 after 14 more of his victims contacted Broken Rites and/or the Victoria Police. Mamo pleaded guilty to 21 additional indecent assaults, committed against these 14 victims while he worked as a Brother at Monivae College, a Catholic secondary school at Hamilton in western Victoria, in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Mamo has also worked at Chevalier College in Bowral, New South Wales, but this Victorian court case was only for Victorian offences.
The 14 victims were boys aged in their early teens or were as young as eleven when the assaults occurred.
Some of these 14 victims contacted Broken Rites (separately) several years ago after reading on the Broken Rites website about a previous Mamo court case. Broken Rites gave each of these new victims the contact details for detectives in the Victoria Police. These detectives then found some additional victims for the 2015 case. The investigation for the 2015 case was completed by the Sano Taskforce in the Victoria Police sex-crimes unit.
Monivae College was established by a religious order, the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart. This order is known by its Latin initials, MSC. Monivae College was originally for boys only, including boarders as well as day boys. It has since become co-educational.
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