Fr. Barry Robinson

From Australia, where he was ordained in 1970. Worked in East Melbourne, transferring in 1979 to Santiago, Chile to work with the Columban Mission Society. Returned to Australia in 1985, working in an East Melbourne parish until around 1992. Arrived in Boston sometime prior to 1994. Admitted in 1994 to a therapist that he had sexual relations with a 16-year-old boy in Boston’s Jamaica Plain neighborhood, and that he had engaged in sexual misconduct in Chile. He fled to Australia after the therapist reported the abuse to civil authorities. Robinson was allowed active ministry in Australia for many years after treatment. In 1/2004 parishioners called for his removal due to allegations; he was placed on leave in 5/2004. In 7/2004 he moved to a “special house for priests with problems” next to an elementary school. In 4/2010 parishioners complained when they discovered that Robinson was to preside over their Easter mass. He had been working in the diocese as a supply priest. Robinson died 10/10/2014.