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WA bishop hired paedophile priest despite previous sex abuse, letters reveals

Posted on July 15, 2017 by Sylvia
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WA Today 13 July 2017 Documents tendered to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse have revealed that Bunbury Bishop John Goody agreed to hire a priest in 1959 – despite knowing he had previously sexually abused a number of … Continue reading →

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Here is the shocking opening address to the royal commission about child abuse in the Catholic church

Posted on February 6, 2017 by Sylvia
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Sky News (skynews.com.au) Feb 6, 2017, 1:34 PM Simon Thomsen Senior counsel assisting Gail Furness SC addresses the royal commission. Source: screenshot The royal commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse opened its first hearings for 2017 in Sydney … Continue reading →

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Former Illawarra priest charged with indecent assault

Posted on April 7, 2015 by Sylvia
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Illawarra Mercury (Australia) March 10, 2015, 11 a.m. By BREE FULLER A former Holy Spirit College priest has been arrested after claims of abuse in the 1980s. Father Patrick Kervin, 58, was arrested in Sydney on Monday afternoon and charged … Continue reading →

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Another priest/former priest charged

Posted on March 31, 2015 by Sylvia
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The upcoming courtdates for former church organist Brian Lucy are: 10 April 2015  (Second set of charges): 09:00 am, “to be spoken to,”   Brockville, Ontario courthouse, (41 Court House Square)   01 June  2015 (first set of sex charges and child … Continue reading →

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Levasseur: Father Almer Levasseur

Posted on October 20, 2011 by Sylvia
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Priest, Diocese of Edmunston, New Brunswick.  Ordained 21 June 1962.  1998 GUILTY to possession of child pornography – $1,000 fine plus banned from surfing the internet for three years  _________________________________ Bishops of Edmunston from time of Father Levasseur’s ordination:  Joseph-Roméo … Continue reading →

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