Compiled by Broken Rites Australia (this page was last updated in December 2015)

This page gives a few examples (not a complete list) of Broken Rites cases involving Catholic clergy and religious Brothers in Australia. This page is confined to cases which have been researched by Broken Rites. We last updated this Black Collar Crime page in December 2015. The complete database of Broken Rites information is NOT available on the internet.

This webpage is divided into sections:

A: Criminal cases - some examples
B: Civil cases - some examples
C: Court cases with no conviction - some examples
D: Lay teachers in church schools - some examples

If a particular offender is not listed on this webpage, this does not mean that this person is not an offender. Many church-abuse victims remain silent for years or forever. Only a few victims have consulted the police; and some victims (often unwisely) merely tip-off the church's internal Professional Standards Office (also called "Towards Healing"), whose main purpose is to protect the church and the perpetrator.

Section A:
Criminal cases,
researched by Broken Rites

Here are some examples of criminal cases, researched by Broken Rites Australia (between 1993 and 2015), involving Catholic priests and religious brothers. This list is confined to cases in which victims were in contact with Broken Rites.

Fr Bert Adderley, Western Australia
The Bunbury Catholic diocese in Western Australia harboured Reverend Dr Bertram Richard Adderley, Ph.D., B.A, while he was committing sexual crimes against boys in the 1960s and '70s. As Adderley is deceased now, the police cannot charge him. Some of Adderley's victim are forcing the Bunbury diocese to pay them financial compensation. According to Broken Rites research, Bertram Adderley had been a lay teacher at the Christian Brothers' Aquinas College in Perth in the 1950s before entering the priesthood. He served as a priest in the Bunbury diocese from 1959 to 1974. In the early 1960s (after working as a priest at the Narrogin parish), Dr Adderley oversaw Catholic education in the Bunbury diocese but in 1965, following complaints about sexual abuse, he was relegated, out-of-sight, to parishes at Mannup and Manjimup. In 1975, he left parish ministry, "on leave".
Fr Michael Aulsebrook
Father Michael Scott Aulsebrook (a member of the Catholic religious order Salesians of Don Bosco) was jailed in 2011 and again in 2016 for child-sex crimes committed in the 1980s, including at Salesian College "Rupertswood" (a boarding school) in Sunbury, Victoria. See more from Broken Rites HERE.
Fr John Ayers, Salesian order
This priest was a danger to schoolboys during his long career in the Catholic religious order of Salesian Fathers. In 2011, the Victoria Police sex-crime squad was gathering evidence about his Victorian crimes but. by then, Ayers was elderly and was retired in Samoa, making it too difficult for police to bring him to court in Australia. He died in 2012. Some of his former pupils in Australia have obtained justice by forcing the Salesians to pay them a civil settlement. See more from Broken Rites HERE.
Fr Wilfred Baker
After action by Broken Rites, Father Wilfred James Baker (also known as Father Bill Baker or Fr Billy Baker), Melbourne archdiocese, was sentenced in 1999 to 4 years jail (eligible for parole after 2 years) for offences against boys. See the Broken Rites story HERE. In early 2014, Baker was due to face court on more charges (after more of his earlier victims spoke to police) but he died, thus preventing these victims from obtaining justice.
Former Christian Brother Ted "Bales", Victoria
A convicted pedophile, Christian Brother Edward Vernon Dowlan, changed his surname to Bales to avoid publicity. In 2015, Bales/Dowlan was jailed again after he pleaded guilty regarding some more of his victims. See more from Broken Rites HERE.
Fr Charlie Barnett
Charles Alfred Barnett, who ministered for the Vincentian order in Catholic parishes around Australia for 20 years until the mid-1990s, was sentenced in South Australia in August 2010 to at least four years for sexual offences against boys in that state. He is also facing complaints in other Australian states. See more from Broken Rites here.
Father Roger Michael Bellemore
This Marist priest was sentenced in Tasmania in 2006 to five years' jail (with parole after 3 years) for offences against schoolboys. After he had spent nine months in jail, the appeal court granted him a re-trial. In February 2008, another jury found Bellemore guilty and he was sentenced to four years' jail. See Broken Rites here.
Br Robert Best
Christian Brother Robert Charles Best (also known as Brother Bob Best) was convicted in Melbourne in 1996 for sexual offences committed against one of his schoolboy victims. On 8 August 2011, after being convicted again for multiple offences (including buggery) against some more of his victims, he was sentenced (at the age of 70) to 14 years and nine months (eligible for parole after serving 11 years and three months). See Broken Rites HERE.
Fr Tony Bongiorno
The Melbourne Catholic archdiocese has been forced to admit that Father Anthony Salvatore Bongiorno committed sexual crimes against boys who were under his supervision. And, furthermore, the Victorian government's Crimes Compensation Tribunal has awarded compensation to at least one of Bongriorno's victims. See Broken Rites here.
Warren Booth
Warren Douglas Booth was training to become a priest when he sexually assaulted a 12-year-old boy in the showers at a public pool in Campbelltown in Sydney's south-west. Booth was sentenced in 1996 to 12 months jail.
Fr Tom Brennan, Newcastle, NSW
In August 2012, police charged Father Thomas Brennan (of the Maitland-Newcastle diocese) with 10 counts of sexually assaulting a young male while Brennan was the parish priest (in the early 1980s) at Waratah, in Newcastle, north of Sydney. He was also charged with having failed to report the sex-crimes (in the 1970s) of another priest who was under Brennan's supervision. Brennan was ordered to appear in court on 25 September 2012 on all these charges but he failed to appear and he died five days later. See Broken Rites here.
Fr Peter Brock, New South Wales
In 2008, Fr Peter Julian Brock, of the Maitland-Newcastle diocese, north of Sydney, was charged by police with having committed 22 sex offences against two boys during the early 1970s. Brock contested the charges in court but later he gave the two victims a written apology for the abuse. The diocese paid a financial settlement to the two victims. See Broken Rites HERE.
Fr Desmond Brown
Father Desmond Joseph Brown, Redemptorist order, Victoria and NSW, non-custodial sentence, for indecent assault of a female.
Fr Rex Brown
Father Paul Rex Brown (once a senior priest in the Lismore Catholic diocese in New South Wales) was convicted in Queensland in 1996 for possessing child pornography. Police could have charged Brown with serious child sexual-assault offences but he chose to plead guilty to the lesser charge of child pornography. See Broken Rites HERE.
Marist Brother Thomas ("Patrick") Butler
Thomas John Butler (a Marist Brother whose "religious" alias was "Brother Patrick") taught at Marist Brothers schools in Newcastle, Sydney and Brisbane for 50 years until 2001. In 2002, a Queensland magistrate ruled that there was enough evidence for Butler to stand trial before a judge in Brisbane District Court for indecently dealing with a Brisbane schoolboy, aged 11. However, for legal reasons, the court proceedings did not result in a conviction. "Brother Pat" died in 2006, aged 77. Victims of his have contacted Broken Rites.
Fr John Byrne, a Jesuit
In a submission to a Victorian Parliamentary Inquiry in 2013, the Melbourne Catholic Archdiocese admitted that Father John Byrne (a Jesuit) committed offences against children in Melbourne while he worked at St Patrick's College and Xavier College. He also taught at St Ignatius College, Riverview, Sydney. See Broken Rites HERE.
Fr Neil Byrne
In Brisbane on 7 March 2012, the Very Rev Dr Neil Joseph Byrne was sentenced to nine months in jail (suspended for two years) after he pleaded guilty to possessing and making child-exploitation material. As a lecturer in a seminary, Byrne has been involved in the training of Australian Catholic priests. See Broken Rites here.
Gerard Vincent Byrnes
Gerard Byrnes (born in 1948) originally trained as a Christian Brother before becoming a lay teacher in Catholic schools in Queensland and New South Wales. On 4 October 2010, he was jailed for 8-10 years after pleading guilty to sexually assaulting girls at a Catholic primary school in Toowoomba, Queensland. He was the school's designated "child protection officer". See Broken Rites here.
Marist Brother "Romuald" Cable
A member of the Catholic religious order of Marist Brothers — Brother Francis William Cable (born 1932), known as "Brother Romuald" — was convicted in the Sydney District Court in 2015 for multiple child-sex offences, including buggery. See Broken Rites HERE.
Brian Cairns, former Christian Brother
After beginning in the early 1970s as a Christian Brother, Brian Cairns worked as a lay teacher ("Mister" Cairns) in Catholic schools in Queensland. In 1985 he was jailed for sex-crimes against boys. In 2014, after more of his former pupils contacted Broken Rites and the police, Cairns was jailed again. See Broken Rites here.
Fr Tom Carroll, Melbourne
The Melbourne Catholic archdiocese has acknowledged that Father Thomas Carroll committed sexual offences against children, including altar boys at Caulfield South (Holy Cross parish) in the 1950s and 1960s. Carroll's earlier parishes around Melbourne included Mansfield and Epping. His victims were silenced by the church culture. Eventually, a victim decided to report Carroll's crimes to the Victoria Police but, by then, Carroll was deceased and the police could not arrest him. Broken Rites is conducting further research regarding Carroll. (This Thomas Carroll in Melbourne should not be confused with any other Australian priest with the same name.)
Br Greg Carter,
Marist Brother Gregory James Carter (born 4 July 1957) was sentenced in Queensland in 1997 to 18 months jail (with release after six months served) after pleading guilty to multiple charges of indecent treatment of a 15-year-old boy who was a boarder at St Augustine's Marist Brothers' College in Cairns, north Queensland. See Broken Rites HERE.
Fr Tony Caruana, MSC Order
In October 1992, Catholic priest Anthony William Peter Caruana was charged in court in New South Wales, by the NSW Office of Public Prosecutions, with having committed an act of indecency on a 12-year-old boy in 1988 while on the staff of Chevalier College (a boys' boarding school in Bowral NSW, operated by a Catholic order, the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart). The court case did not result in a conviction. Two decades later, in November 2012 the then leader of the MSC Order in Australia (Father John Mulrooney) was quoted in the Sydney Morning Herald as saying that, apart from this 12-year-old boy, a dozen former students have lodged formal complaints regarding Father Caruana at Chevalier College.
Fr Dermot Casey, Brisbane archdiocese
Fr Dermot Casey, who had a long career in south-east Queensland parishes, was charged in 2012 with sexual offences against ten children but he kept evading court on medical grounds and he finally died in August 2014 (aged 78), ten days before his next court date. The Brisbane archdiocese has begun compensating victims for the damage done by Casey. See Broken Rites HERE.
Fr Richard Cattell
Father Richard St John Cattell, of the Parramatta diocese, NSW, was jailed in 1994 after pleading guilty to indecent assault of a boy and he was jailed again in 2015 after another of his victims contacted the police. See Broken Rites HERE.
Fr Peter Chalk
This priest (a member of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart religious order) ministered in Melbourne in the 1970s (around Croydon, Park Orchards and Warrandyte). Melbourne police later accumulated evidence which could enable them to prosecute Father Peter Gerard Chalk for sexually abusing children (as young as 12) in Melbourne. But Chalk's religious superiors allowed him to stay out of Australia (and out of reach of the Australian police), working in Japan, where he changed his surname to a Japanese one. In 2010, Chalk suddenly died (in Japan), thus closing the Melbourne police file. See Broken Rites here.
Br Bob Chambers, Queensland
The Brisbane Courier Mail has reported that in the Brisbane District Court on 10 October 2002, Christian Brother Robert George Chambers (then aged 60) pleaded guilty to assault occasioning bodily harm on a boy, aged 12, in 1968 while Chambers was teaching at St Joseph's Christian Brothers College in Rockhampton, central Queensland. Brother Chambers, who was standing at a window in the Brothers' residence, fired an air rifle at the boy in the school yard, hitting him twice in the back of his legs as the boy drank from a water fountain. Judge Julie Dick placed Chambers on a $100, six-month good-behaviour bond. The prosecutor said that the Crown had elected not to proceed with another, different charge against Chambers. In the 1980s, Brother Chambers taught at Ignatius Park College in Townsville.
Br David Christian
Marist Brother David Austin Christian (born 3 December 1942), formerly principal of Marist Brothers' Newman College, Perth, Western Australia, pleaded guilty to multiple counts of aggravated indecent assault against two boys (aged 10 and 11) in the principal's office. When charged in 1994, Br Christian had been teaching at Port Hedland, W.A. In 1995, Christian was fined $10,500 ($1,500 per incident) but the Marist Order said it would pay the fine for him. Brother Christian moved to live with the Marist Brothers in Templestowe, Melbourne. According to Marist websites (accessed in 2011), Brother David Christian continued to be accepted by his superiors and colleagues as a member of the Marist order.
Fr Bob Claffey
Father Robert Claffey, Ballarat diocese, Victoria, has been jailed See Broken Rites here.
Fr Patrick Cleary
Father Patrick Joseph Cleary, Brisbane archdiocese, 5-15 months jail for offences against boys. See more HERE.
Fr Bryan Coffey
Father Bryan Desmond Coffey, Ballarat diocese, Victoria, was sentenced to 3 years jail (suspended) for offences against children, mostly boys. See Broken Rites here.
Gregory Coffin (alias Coffey)
Gregory Vincent Coffey (birth-name Coffin) was originally a priesthood trainee in the Salesian order. Brother Greg Coffin taught at Salesian College ("Rupertswood"), Sunbury, Victoria, in 1969-1970, and at St Mark's College, Port Pirie, South Australia, in 1971. In February 1972, he was sentenced to 12 months jail (suspended) for sexual abuse of a boy at the Port Pirie school. Despite this, he was still accepted as a lay teacher (Mr "Coffey") in Catholic schools. Coffey was sentenced to a 2-year good behaviour bond in Victoria in 1994, plus 30 months jail (suspended) in Victoria in 1997 for offences against boys at Redden College, Preston, Melbourne, in the 1970s. See Broken Rites here.
Fr Peter Colley
Father Peter James Colley, of the Ballarat diocese in Victoria, pleaded guilty in the Moonee Ponds Magistrates Court, Melbourne, on 11 March 1993 to two charges -- one indecent assault of an adult male in a public toilet at Moonee Ponds and one charge of escaping from legal custody. Court records gave Colley's occupation as "priest", living in at an address in Morriss Road, Warrnambool West, which is the address of the St Pius X Catholic presbytery. Colley was sentenced to a 12-months good behaviour bond. Peter Colley was born in Melbourne on 12 April 1948 and went to school at Parade Christian Brothers College, Melbourne. Originally he worked as a layman with the Pallottine religious order, including (he has said) among Aboriginals at Kalgoorlie, Western Australia. In the early 1970s he was living at Pallotti College, Millgrove, Victoria, seeking to be accepted as a Pallotine lay Brother but did not complete the training. Also in the 1970s, he is believed to have spent time at a Redemptorist seminary in Galong, south-western New South Wales. During the 1970s, Colley applied to Bishop Ronald Mulkearns of Ballarat to sponsor him as a Ballarat candidate for the priesthood. Thus, Colley was ordained at St Paul's Seminary for Late Vocations in Sydney in 1979 and then joined the Ballarat diocese, where his parishes included Terang, Horsham, Bungaree (near Ballarat) and Warrnambool East. In early 2000, when his court appearance was becoming known, Colley left the Ballarat diocese and his name then disappeared from the annual Australian Catholic Directory.
Fr Peter L. Comensoli
In 1994, Father Peter Lewis Comensoli (then aged 55, of the Wollongong diocese, south of Sydney) was sentenced to a minimum of 18 months jail after pleading guilty to indecent assaulting altar boys. Comensoli's abuse was reported to the Wollongong diocese in 1989 but the church authorities allowed him to continue ministering. Finally, two victims got him convicted. Despite this, Comensoli was not laicized or defrocked. As late as 2008, Father Peter L. Comensoli was still listed as a "supplementary priest" of the Wollongong diocese "on leave" or "retired". See more from Broken Rites here. This Father Comensoli is not to be confused with another clergyman, Auxiliary Bishop Peter A. Comensoli.
Fr Doug Conlan
Father Douglas Conlan began ministering in Western Australia's Bunbury diocese in the 1970s. In 1999, aged 52, he was sentenced to 3 years jail (suspended) after pleading guilty to offences of gross indecency committed (in 1976) against a 16-year-old male. The court was told that the boy's family trusted the priest who took the boy on a trip for services in country parishes. The offences occurred during an overnight stay in church accommodation.
Fr Bernie Connell
In November 1995, news media outlets in southern New South Wales reported that a Local Court magistrate had committed Father Bernard M. Connell (born 1938) to stand trial for child-sex offences allegedly committed in the Wagga Wagga diocese in southern New South Wales. However, the subsequent trial proceedings did not result in a conviction. New South Wales. See Broken Rites HERE.
Fr Paul Connolly
Father Paul Anthony Connolly, Hobart archdiocese, was sentenced in 2001 to eight months jail (suspended after serving four months) for multiple indecent assaults of a girl aged about 14. After the jailing, the Hobart archdiocese continued to list Connolly as a "supplementary" priest of the archdiocese. See Broken Rites here.
Br John Coswello
Christian Brother John Francis Coswello, then 70, was sentenced to jail on 22 June 2009 after a jury found him guilty of committing sexual offences against a 12-year-old boy in a Melbourne orphanage. Later, the Victorian Court of Appeal granted him a re-trial, at which another jury (in October 2010) found him not guilty. See Broken Rites here.
Fr Kevin Nicholas Cox
A Sydney jury convicted this priest of sexual crimes against a girl aged 11 to 13. Church leaders and priests then submitted "good-character" references for Cox, asking the court for a lenient sentence. A judge imposed a part-time jail sentence but church lawyers appealed to a higher court against the conviction and won the appeal on technical grounds. Privately, a church leader later apologised to the girl's family for what Cox had done to her. See Broken Rites HERE.
Br Brendan Crawford, Passionist Order
A Catholic religious brother, Vincent Crawford (a.k.a. Brother "Brendan" Crawford), of the Passionist Order, appeared in court in 2009, charged with sexual offences against a girl in the late 1970s. The court decided told that Crawford (aged 77 when charged) was medically unfit to undergo the court proceedings. See Broken Rites HERE.
Fr Peter Creede, of the Vincentian order
In a submission to a Victorian Parliamentary Inquiry in 2013, the Melbourne Catholic Archdiocese admitted that Father Peter Philip Creede (of the Catholic Vincentian order) committed sexual offences in Melbourne. Creede is dead now and it is too late for the police to prosecute him. Broken Rites has received multiple complaints from females who were abused (as children) by Father Creede in other parts of Australia. Born in Ireland (with seven siblings who became nuns or priests), he was ordained in Sydney. He worked at St Stanislaus College, Bathurst (New South Wales), followed by parishes in Southport and Wandal (Queensland), Ashfield (NSW) and Malvern (Victoria).
Fr Neville Creen
Father Neville Joseph Creen molested young girls while he served as a priest at Mount Isa, north-west Queensland (in the Townsville diocese), from 1973 to 1981. In Brisbane District Court in 2003 and 2004, Creen admitted to indecently dealing with 20 girls under the age of 13. One girl was aged just five when Creen abused her at a youth camp and later at the home of her grandparents. Creen was sentenced to three-and-half years' jail (suspended after 14 months). Judge Ian Wylie said Creen had used his position as a priest and his standing in the community to intimidate the girls into remaining silent about their ordeals. See Broken Rites here.
Fr Pat Cusack, Canberra
After action by Broken Rites, the Canberra-Goulburn archdiocese admitted that Father Patrick Cusack committed sexual assaults against primary school girls in St Matthew's parish in Page, a Canberra suburb, in the 1970s. See more HERE.
Fr Denis Daly
This Irish-born priest committed child-sex crimes in the Sydney archdiocese in the 1960s and 1970s. The New South Wales police agreed not to prosecute him if the church moved him out of NSW. Therefore, the church transferred him to Western Australia and then allowed him to roam the world, thereby putting more children at risk. One boy victim in Ireland died by suicide. See the Broken Rites story HERE.
Fr David Daniel
In July 2000, Melbourne Catholic priest Father David Daniel was sentenced to six years' jail, with parole after 4.5 years, for offences against four boys, a girl and an adult male. This priest's last parish was St Brigid's, Healesville. See the Broken Rites story here.
Chris D'Astoli, former priesthood trainee
Press and radio and TV news reports in May 1994 stated that a former trainee Catholic priest, Christopher D'Astoli, appeared in Oakleigh Magistrates Court (Melbourne) on 25 May 1994. D'Astoli (aged 50 in 1994) pleaded guilty to gross indecency and indecent assault against a 13-year-old Catholic school boy in the Oakleigh area in 1969-70, when D'Astoli was completing six years as a trainee priest at the Melbourne Catholic seminary (Corpus Christi College in Glen Waverley). The court was told that the boy reported the assault to his school and D'Astoli left the seminary a few days before he was due to be ordained. However, the court was told, the boy's school (Salesian College, Oakleigh) persuaded the boy not to tell his parents or the police, and the police did not learn about the matter until 23 years later. Magistrate Susan Blashki placed D'Astoli on a three-year good-behaviour bond, and ordered him to pay $750 into the court fund. The information for this case was prepared by Sergeant Brendan Harper of Oakleigh Criminal Investigation Branch.
Father Albert Davis
This Catholic priest (a member of the Dominican Fathers, the Order of Preachers) was charged in 2006 with 17 incidents of indecent assault involving seven boys at Blackfriars Priory School (conducted by the Dominican Fathers) in Prospect, Adelaide, between 1956 and 1960. A magistrate ruled that there was enough evidence for a jury to convict Davis. The magistrate committed him to stand trial in the Adelaide District Court. But Davis died in Canberra in March 2007 before the trial could be held. See Broken Rites here.
Fr Bernard Day
In a statement to a Victorian Parliamentary inquiry in 2013, the Melbourne Catholic archdiocese has admitted that Father Bernard Maxwell Day was a child-sex offender. Broken Rites has ascertained that he committed sexual offences against children while he lived in 1961-63 in a flat at St Catherine's girls' orphanage (conducted by the Sisters of Mercy) in Geelong, where he acted as the "chaplain", giving the girls "sex education". Some of these women are still trying to repair their damaged lives. See more from Broken Rites HERE.
Monsignor John Day, Victoria
A detective gathered enough evidence to prosecute Monsignor John Day, who sexually abused many boys and girls in the Mildura parish in north-western Victoria. Influential church people blocked the prosecution. In 1997, after Broken Rites exposed the cover-up, the church reluctantly admitted Day's crimes and was forced apologise to his victims. See the Broken Rites story here.
Father Adelrick D'Cruz
This priest, aged 78, was convicted in the Victorian County Court at Shepparton on 22 May 2008 after pleading guilty to indecently assaulting a teenage girl in a north-eastern Victoria parish 24 years previously. D'Cruz had ministered in the Sandhurst diocese in northern Victoria and later did freelance ministry in the Anglo-Indian community in Melbourne. See Broken Rites here.
Fr Frank De Dood, Salesian order
In the Melbourne County Court on 7 August 2017, Catholic priest Frank De Dood (then aged 64) was sentenced to jail for indecently assaulting five young boys while he was teaching and ministering at Catholic schools in Melbourne between 1978 and 1983. See more from Broken Rites HERE.
De La Salle Brother Wilfred De Cruz
The Catholic religious order of De La Salle Brothers has acknowledged that it accommodated Brother Wilfred D'Cruz (now deceased) while he committed sexual crimes on schoolboys. The DLS Order has made amends with two victims of this Brother at a DLS secondary school at Scarborough, Queensland (now called Southern Cross Catholic College). See more from Broken Rites HERE.
Fr Ray Deal
Father Raymond Deal, Melbourne archdiocese, was sentenced to four months jail (suspended) for an offence against a male who was under his supervision. See Broken Rites here.
Fr John Denham
Father John Sidney Denham (of the Maitland-Newcastle Catholic diocese, New South Wales), who is already in jail for child-sex crimes, pleaded guilty in a Sydney court on 1 August 2013 to more crimes committed against more boys. He will be sentenced again in early 2014. On 2 July 2010, Denham was sentenced to 19 years and 10 months in jail (with parole possible after 13 years and 10 months) for offences (including buggery) committed against boys in the 1970s and 1980s. See a comprehensive background article from Broken Rites HERE and the judge's sentencing remarks HERE and another family's complaint HERE.
Fr Frank Derriman
Francis Edward Derriman was sentenced in Brisbane in 1998 to 12 months jail (suspended after serving four months) after being found guilty of indecently dealing with a teenage girl (Joan) while Father Derriman was a priest in Brisbane in 1968. The court was told that Derriman left his church posting in 1970 after getting another teenage girl pregnant. In 2013 he is living in Melbourne. To read more from Broken Rites, click HERE.
Fr Mark Devoy
A number of women, now elderly, have provided evidence that Fr Mark Devoy SM (from the Society of Mary religious order) committed sexual crimes on them when they were young school girls in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. These victims lived in different parts of Australia; they did not know each other; and the attacks happened in various parishes. One woman says some of her assaults occurred during Confession. Devoy was protected by the Society of Mary while he worked in parishes in Sydney, Brisbane and Perth (and also, previously, in New Zealand). In 2015, when she was aged 85, one victim finally told her story when had a private interview with Australia's national child-abuse Royal Commission, and gave evidence about how Father Devoy committed numerous criminal assaults on her in 1941, when she was aged 11, in a parish in Hunters Hill, Sydney. Another witness told the Commission that Devoy assaulted her in the Hunters Hill parish when she was aged 11 in 1949. These women still feel hurt by the church's culture of cover-up, which enabled Devoy's crimes to be concealed from the police. Devoy is now deceased.
Br Gerard Dick
In 1995, Christian Brother Gerard William Dick (then aged 67) was sentenced to three and a half years jail in Perth, Western Australia, after pleading guilty to ten incidents of indecently dealing with boys aged eight to ten at a Christian Brothers orphanage, Castledare, in W.A. in the 1960s. Dick was just one of many Christian Brothers who abused boys in W.A. orphanages but most of the others were never brought to justice.
Br Edward Dowlan
Christian Brother Edward Vernon Dowlan (known as Ted Dowlan), Victoria, 1996, was jailed in 1996 for sexual crimes against boys. After more victims contacted police, he was jailed again in 2015(under his new surname, Bales). See more from Broken Rites HERE.
Br "David" Down
Christian Brother Graeme James Down (known in the Christian Brothers as "Brother David Down") indecently touched boys aged 10-12 from St Mark's College in Bedford, Western Australia, in the 1980s; he left the Christian Brothers in 1999; was convicted in 2007 (pleaded guilty); received a 30-months jail sentence, with parole after one year. Later in 2007, Broken Rites received further complaints about Brother Down at the same school in the 1980s. This resulted in Down being given additional jail time in 2008. See Broken Rites here.
Fr Aidan Duggan, Sydney
Australia's child-abuse Royal Commission has been told that an Australian paedopile priest (Fr Aidan Duggan, a member of the Benedictine religious order) indecently assaulted children while ministering in Scotland and was then recruited by the Sydney Catholic archdiocese, where he again committed offences. His Sydney parishes included Bass Hill, Gymea, Camperdown, Drummoyne and St Mary's Cathedral. To see more from Broken Rites, click HERE.
Fr Reginald Durham
Father Reginald Basil Durham, Rockhampton diocese, Queensland, was jailed for indecent assault of a girl aged 12-14 at Neerkol orphanage. He also had other victims. See Broken Rites HERE.
Br John Dyson
Marist Brother John Desmond Dyson (born 21 March 1950), who taught at Assumption College, Kilmore, Victoria, was sentenced to 12 months jail after pleading guilty to indecently assaulting three boys, aged 12 to 14. The sentence was served in community work. See Broken Rites here.
Fr Anthony Eames
Father Anthony Eames, Melbourne archdiocese, was sentenced to six months jail (suspended) for offences against girls. See Broken Rites here.
Fr Finian Egan
In Sydney on 20 December 2014, Father Finian James Egan was sentenced to at least four years' jail after a jury found him guilty of one count of rape and seven counts of indecent assault, committed against three girls who were aged from 10 to 17, between 1961 and 1987. See more from Broken Rites here.
Fr Michael Endicott
On 25 June 2010 in Brisbane, Father Michael Ambrose Endicott was given a one-year jail sentence (suspended) after pleading guilty to indecent treatment of a schoolboy. See more from Broken Rites here.
Br Rex Elmer
Christian Brother Rex Ignatius Elmer, Victoria, was sentenced in 1998 to five years jail (with parole after 3 years 4 months) after pleading guilty to indecent assault of 12 boys at St Vincent's Boys' Home in South Melbourne. See the Broken Rites article here.
Br Michael Evans, New South Wales
By December 1994, New South Wales police had gathered sufficient evidence to charge Christian Brother Michael Evans with multiple sexual crimes against Catholic schoolboys. But Evans committed suicide, thereby evading the justice process. His victims included pupils at Edmund Rice College (Wollongong) and St Patrick’s College (Strathfield, Sydney). The Christian Brothers Order has apologised to Evans's victims.
Fr Paul Evans, Boys' Town, NSW
On 3 October 2008 Father Paul Raymond Evans (born 20 October 1951) was sentenced to 15 years' jail (with parole possible after nine and a half years) after a Sydney jury found him guilty of multiple sex offences against boys in the 1970s and 1980s, while he was a dormitory master at Boys' Town (a Catholic institution for troubled teenagers) inEngadine, south of Sydney. After 1988, Evans worked in parishes in the Broken Bay diocese in Sydney's north. See more from Broken Rites HERE.
Fr John Joseph Farrell, northern NSW, 1980s
Father John Joseph Farrell (sometimes referred to as "Father F") assaulted children as a Catholic priest in northern New South Wales in the 1980s (and later in western Sydney until 1992). He was jailed in 2016. See a comprehensive Broken Rites article about Farrell's background HERE.

Marist Brother Stephen Farrell, NSW
The Marist Brothers organisation has apologised to former students who were sexually abused by Marist Brother "Stephen" Farrell (real name Keith Boyd Farrell, born1922) at Marist schools (including St Joseph's College, Hunters Hill, Sydney; Marcellin College, Randwick, Sydney; and Ashgrove in Brisbane. See more from Broken Rites HERE.
Christian Brother Stephen Farrell, Victoria
Brother Stephen Francis Farrell (a member of the Victoria-Tasmania province of the Christian Brothers) was a teacher at St Alipius Catholic primary school in Ballarat East, Victoria, in 1973-74 but later left the order. In the Ballarat Magistrates Court on 17 January 1997, Farrell (then aged 45) pleaded guilty to nine counts of indecently assaulting two boys at St Alipius. Farrell was sentenced to two years' jail, suspended for two years. In December 2013 (aged 62) Farrell was jailed for three months (not suspended) after another of his victims (from 1974) contacted the police. See more from Broken Rites HERE.
Fr Nazzareno Fasciale, Melbourne
The Melbourne Catholic archdiocese harboured this offender for many years until Broken Rites encouraged his victims to report his crimes to the police, who then charged Father Fasciale (pronounced "Fah-SHAH-Lay") with numerous indecent assaults of boys and girls. Fasciale admitted these crimes in a police interview. He died after being summoned to court. The church later admitted that Fasciale was a child-abuser and it has been forced to pay compensation to his victims. See the Broken Rites story here.
Fr Gregory Ferguson
Father Gregory Laurence Ferguson, of the Marist Fathers, was sentenced on 15 May 2007 to two years jail (eligible for parole after 12 months), for offences in 1971 against two boys aged 13 at Marist College, Burnie, Tasmania. On 13 December 2007, he was sentenced to an additional three years' jail for offences against a third boy, making a total of five years' jail (but he can apply for parole after two and half years). See Broken Rites here.
Christian Brother Gerald Fitzgerald, teaching in Ballarat
The Christian Brothers have accepted (and have settled) a complaint from a former pupil of St Alipius primary school in Ballarat who was indecently assaulted by Brother Gerald Leo Fitzgerald in 1976-77, aged about 9. Fitzgerald, who also indecently assaulted other boys, died in 1987 and therefore police cannot charge him regarding his crimes.
Fr Gerard Fitzgerald, Melbourne priest
Father Gerard Fitzgerald, of Melbourne, was investigated by Victoria Police detectives in one of his early parishes (in 1964) about sexual crimes against children but, after high-level negotiations between the Melbourne archdiocese and the Police Department, the church saved him from prosecution and allowed him to remain a priest with access to children. Fitzgerald (born in Ireland in 1932) died in 2010 after 50 years in the priesthood.See Broken Rites HERE.
Fr Robert Flaherty, Sydney
This priest (born 1943) was jailed in 2016 for indecent assaults committed against children in parishes in western Sydney in the 1970s and 1980s. See more from Broken Rites HERE.
Fr James Fletcher
Father James Patrick Fletcher, Maitland-Newcastle diocese, NSW, 7.5 years to 10 years jail for sexual penetration of an altar boy. Fletcher died in jail. See Broken Rites here.
Br Michael Folli
In the New South Wales District Court, after lengthy proceedings (including an appeal by the accused), Marist Brother Michael Anthony Folli (born 4 January 1945) has been sentenced to four and a half years' jail for sexual offences against two boys during four years from 1980 to 1983 when the boys were aged 12 to 15. The prosecution said the two siblings met Brother Folli through their Marist Brothers school at Auburn, in Sydney's west. Folli befriended the family and became a frequent visitor to their house, where the alleged incidents occurred.
Br Raymond Foster
Marist Brother Raymond Sidney Foster (born 26 November 1931) was originally called "Brother Celestine". He taught at Catholic schools in Queensland and New South Wales. In 1999, police interviewed Foster (then aged 67) at a Marist Brothers retirement home in Mittagong, NSW) and charged him with indecent assaults against boys, committed at Chanel College, Gladstone, Queensland, in the 1970s. On 23 March 1999 he was found, hanged, just hours before he was due to appear in a New South Wales court to be extradited to Queensland. See more from Broken Rites HERE.
Fr Julian Fox
Father Julian Benedict Fox, 70, from the Catholic Salesian order, was jailed in 2015 for crimes committed against boys in two Melbourne Catholic schools. See more from Broken Rites HERE.
Fr Rob Fuller
Father Robert Macgregor Fuller, 54, a priest of the Sydney Catholic archdiocese, was jailed in February 2010 for seeking to procure a child under the age of 16 via internet chat sites. See more from Broken Rites here.
Fr Des Gannon
Father Desmond Laurence Gannon, Melbourne archdiocese, was jailed in 1995 for 12 months, plus suspended sentences in 1997, 2000 and 2003, and was sentenced in 2009 to another 14 months behind bars, for offences against boys. See the full story from Broken Rites here.
Fr Ray Garchow, St John of God religious order
Raymond Garchow became a religious brother in the St John of God order in 1964, aged 17, and was upgraded to a priest in 1987, aged 40. In New South Wales in the early 1980s, he worked at "Kendall Grange" boarding institution for educationally disabled boys in Morisset, north of Sydney. In 2006, after he had been living and ministering around Sydney for several years, the Federal Court of Australia ordered that Garchow be extradited to face charges of child-sex abuse in New Zealand, where he had worked at an institution (Marylands special school for educationally disabled boys) in Christchurch in the 1970s. A trial was scheduled for Garchow in Christchurch. On 23 July 2008, the New Zealand prosecutors decided not to proceed with the trial for several reasons: Garchow, aged 61, was too ill; furthermore, one of the two complainants was also unwell; and the second complainant had trouble with a disability, which made the prospect of a trial difficult. The prosecutors entered a permanent stay of proceedings. Garchow's counsel said afterwards that Garchow maintains his innocence. See more about the extradition proceedings HERE.
Br John Gaven
Brother John Francis Gaven, a member of the Catholic Church's Vincentian order, has been participating in proceedings in Sydney District Court. The outcome is not yet available.

Br George, in De La Salle schools
After one of his victims finally contacted the police, Albert Matthew Taylor (known as "Brother George") pleaded guilty in the Sydney District Court on 8 August 1995 to two incidents of indecently assaulting an 11-year-old boy. The assaults occurred in 1967 at De La Salle College, Revesby, Sydney. Taylor, aged 79 in 1995, was placed on a three-year good behaviour bond. Taylor's other schools included De La Salle College, Orange, NSW. See the Broken Rites story HERE.
Br Terry Gilsenan
In 2001, Marist Brother Terence Joseph Gilsenan (born 18 October 1955) was sentenced to three years jail (with parole after 21 months) after pleading guilty to one incident of homosexual intercourse and three incidents of gross indecency, committed against a 12-year-old boarder, from a country area, at St Gregory's College, Campbelltown, New South Wales. The offences occurred in 1987-89 when Gilsenan, then in his early thirties, was the assistant boarding supervisor, a trainee brother and a teacher at the college. Despite his conviction, the Marists continued to accept Gilsenan as a member of the Marist Order, and in late 2004 a Marist website said that Gilsenan would be a member of a Marist "Ministry Team", which would be associated with some Sydney schools which have Marist roots.
Brother J.G. Gladwin
In 1998, Queensland detectives were ready to prosecute Gladwin for committing sexual crimes against schoolboys while he worked (as Christian Brother Gerard Gladwin) in Queensland in the 1960s and '70s. But, before court proceedings could begin, Gladwin (aged 65) was found dead, gassed in his car, near Brisbane. He left a suicide note. Thus, he avoided the justice process. Brother Gerard Gladwin's schools included: a school in Gympie between 1957 and 1962; St Mary's College, Toowoomba in the 1960s; St Joseph's Nudgee College, Brisbane, in 1970-71; and St Columban's College, Brisbane, in the mid 1970s. See more from Broken Rites here.
Marist Br Dominic Gleeson
In Newcastle District Court on 11 October 2013, former Marist Brother John Patrick Gleeson (who was one of several Marists who have been known as "Brother Dominic") was convicted and sentenced to a good-behaviour bond after he pleaded guiltly to seven incidents of indecent assault against three booys when he was a Marist Brother at Marist Brothers High School, Hamilton, in the Newcastle area (in New South Wales), fifty years earlier - in 1962. See more from Broken Rites HERE.
Fr Michael Glennon
Father Michael Charles Glennon, Melbourne archdiocese, was jailed in 1978, again in 1991 and 2003, serving a total of 10.5 years minimum to 14.5 years maximum for multiple offences (including rape and indecent assault), mostly against boys. He committed many of his crimes while on bail awaiting trial for other sex offences. See Broken Rites here.
Fr Kevin Glover, Western Australia
The Catholic Church authorities in Western Australia harboured Father William Kevin Glover (known as Kevin Glover) for many years while he committed sexual crimes against local children. When his crimes became known in one parish, the church merely transferred him to another parish. Later, the church arranged for him to transfer to a mission in the Pacific Islands (there, he was safe from any complaints by his Australian victims). To read more from Broken Rites, click HERE.
Paul Goldsmith
Former trainee priest Paul Ronald Goldsmith, Tasmania, was jailed for six and a half years (with parole possible after four years) for offences against 20 boys, aged 13 to 16. See Broken Rites story here.
Fr Terence Goodall
Originally, in civil out-of-court negotiations, the church's investigator upheld this victim's complaint about pastoral abuse, but the archbishop's office interfered evasively and deceptively. Therefore, to obtain justice, this victim had to go to the police, resulting in a magistrate's court case in which Father Goodall pleaded guilty to indecent assault of this adult male victim. The magistrate convicted Goodall and sentenced him to remain in custody in the courtroom until the morning's court session ended. See the Broken Rites story HERE.
Br Brian Gordon
Marist Brother Brian Robert Gordon (born 15 December 1942) sexually abused boys while teaching at a Marist Brothers primary school in Dundas, Sydney, in 1969-71. The Marists kept quiet about Gordon's behaviour and he eventually became the Brisbane diocese's deputy directory of Catholic Education. In 1998 he was sentenced to a minimum of 12 months jail for eight sexual offences committed in 1969-71 against four boys, aged about 11, at the Sydney school. See Broken Rites here.
Br Thomas Grealy
Brother Thomas William Grealy, alias Brother "Augustine", of the Patrician Brothers order, was sentenced in 1997 to seven years jail (parole after four years) after pleading guilty to repeated indecent assaults of two young boys while he was the principal of the primary section of a Patrician Brothers school in Grimwood Street, Granville, in western Sydney, in the 1970s. Before molesting a boy in his office, Brother Augustine would cover a statue of the Virgin Mary with a raincoat to hide his shame. See more from Broken Rites HERE.
Monsignor Philip Green
Monsignor Philip Richard Green, Hobart archdiocese, was sentenced to three months jail (suspended) after pleading guilty to indecently assaulting a young man who was mourning the death of a sibling. See Broken Rites here.
Fr Jack Gubbels
On 18 August 1995, Victorian detectives went to Queensland to arrest Father Jack William Gubbels for sexual crimes crimes against Melbourne boys. But, expecting the arrest, Gubbels was found dead in bed. Thus he avoided the justice process. Gubbels had worked as a priest in the Melbourne and Townsville (Queensland) dioceses. See the Broken Rites story here.
Fr Barry Gwillim
Father John Barry Gwillim, Melbourne archdiocese, was sentenced to 32 months jail (suspended) after pleading guilty to offences against a boy. See Broken Rites here.
Fr John Haines
In the Victorian County Court on 4 November 2008, Father Edmund John Haines (of the Melbourne Catholic archdiocese, based in the Geelong district) was sentenced to four years and three months jail (with a non-parole period of two years six months) after he pleaded guilty to six counts of an indecent act with a boy under 16, procurement of a minor for child pornography and possessing child pornography. Haines was previously a priest in Papua New Guinea. See Broken Rites here.
Br "Malcolm" Hall
Marist Brother Philip Stanley Hall (born 12 November 1925, alias Brother Malcolm) worked in Catholic schools in Mount Gambier (Sth Aust.), Parkes and Forbes (NSW) and Warragul (Victoria). In 1998, police arrested him (and gave him a summons to appear in court) for sexual crimes against boys and girls in Victoria. But he died just before the scheduled court date, so the court case had to be cancelled. See more from Broken Rites here.
Br John Francis Hallett, Northern Territory
In the Northern Territory Supreme Court on 25 May 1995, this Christian Brother (then aged 46) was sentenced to five years' jail for committing gross indecency against two Aboriginal boys while he was headmaster of a Catholic school on the Tiwi Islands, north of Darwin. Later an appeal court quashed this conviction because of alleged defects in the jury trial. Hallett belonged to the Christian Brothers' Queensland province, which serviced the Northern Territory.
Bede Hampton, Queensland, ex-Marist Brother
In December 2010 a former Catholic Marist teaching brother, now living in Australia — Bede Hampton, aged 62 — was sentenced in New Zealand's High Court to jail for two years and six months for indecent assaults committed against boys in a New Zealand Catholic boarding school (St Joseph's College in Masterton) in the early 1970s. Hampton left the Marist Brothers when he was 29. He has become an interior decorator based in Queensland. One of his victims now also lives in Australia. See more from Broken Rites here.
Phillip Hardy, trainee priest
In 1990, Phillip John Hardy began training for the Catholic priesthood with the Divine Word Missionaries at Box Hill in Melbourne but he did not reach ordination. In Sydney District Court in 1995, aged 41, he was sentenced to 11 years' jail (with a minimum of seven years before parole) for sexual offences committed against a boy during an eight-year period, in 1978-1986, when the boy was aged from 8 to 16. During the time of the offences, Hardy was teaching at Marist Brothers College, Eastwood, Sydney, where he was in charge of "religious studies".
Br Martin Harmata
In September 2013, Brother Martin Harmata, aged 60 (of the Catholic order of Patrician Brothers) was sentenced to three-and-a-half years jail after he pleaded guilty to eight child-sex offences committed against three boys who were under his authority while he was working at Patrician Brothers College in Blacktown, western Sydney. See more from Broken Rites here.
Br Bernard Hartman
In 2015, American-born Brother Bernard Hartman was jailed in Australia for sexual crimes committed against Melbourne children in the 1970 and 1980s. See more from Broken Rites HERE.
Br Francis Hesford
Marist Brother Hesford (born 1 February 1914), formerly of Assumption College, Kilmore, Victoria (later moved to Western Australia), was given a non-custodial sentence in 1997 after pleading guilty to offences against two girls at Kilmore. The offences were committed in 1970, when Hesford was aged 56. See more from Broken Rites here and also here.
Fr Ted Hewitt
Father Edward Patrick Hewitt, of the Perth diocese, Western Australia, pleaded guilty in a Perth court on 2 April 1996 to a charge of wilful exposure. The prosecution alleged that Hewitt (then aged 50) had stood naked in the back yard of his home, exposing himself to children as they walked past, through an adjoining park, on their way to school. At the sentencing, in May 1996, the court fined Fr Edward Hewitt $1,000.
Br Bill Hocking
0n 31 October 1992 Christian Brother William Hocking was sentenced to 150 hours of community service after being convicted of sexually assaulting a teenage boy at a Catholic Church youth refuge, "Eddy's Place", in Wollongong, New South Wales.
Fr Stan Hogan, Jesuit priest
Father Stanislaus John Hogan, then aged 69, who has long been associated with prominent Catholic schools in Adelaide, Sydney and Melbourne, was jailed in 2015 after he pleaded guilty to child-pornography charges. See Broken Rites HERE.
Patrick Holmes, of the Camillian Fathers
This religious-order priest was jailed in Western Australia in 2014, aged 79, after he pleaded guilty to indecently dealing with two Perth girls (one girl in 1969, the other in 1980). See more from Broken Rites HERE.
Ronald Hopkins
Ronald William Hopkins originally trained to be a Christian Brother but ended up as a lay teacher in Catholic schools. In 2005, Hopkins pleaded guilty to offences (five counts of unlawful sexual intercourse by a teacher, five of indecent assault and one of gross indecency) against five schoolboys, aged 12 to 16, between 1975 and 1991 while he was a teacher at two Adelaide schools — St Bernadette's in a suburb called St Mary's and Blackfriars Priory School at Prospect. In the S.A. Supreme Court in 2006, Hopkins (then aged 70) was sentenced to ten years' jail. See Broken Rites here.
Fr Dan Hourigan, Victoria
On 18 September 1995, Victoria Police charged Father Daniel Dominic Hourigan, (of the Sale diocese) with sexual crimes against boys. Three days later, he died unexpectedly, thereby avoiding a court appearance. Thus the court case had to be cancelled. See the Broken Rites story here.
Fr John Houston, visiting New South Wales
A Catholic priest, John Charles Houston (born 3 March 1955), has appeared in a court near Newcastle in New South Wales, accused of filming boys showering during a surf lifesaving carnival. The magistrate ordered that Houston be supervised by mental health workers, continue to take his medication and not loiter near public pools or beaches. See Broken Rites here.
Br William Houston
Christian Brother William Stuart Houston has been jailed on charges relating to St Augustine's orphanage, Geelong, Victoria, See Broken Rites here.
Fr Kevin Howarth
Father Kevin Howarth, Sandhurst diocese in north-eastern Victoria, sexually abused young girls and was sentenced to three months jail. The sentence was to be served in community work. See Broken Rites here.
Fr James Hughes
This priest (also known as Fr Jamie Hughes or Fr Jim Hughes) was born in Ireland on 15 May 1920 and was ordained in 1946. Father James Hughes ministered briefly in Hobart in 1947-49 and then in the Maitland-Newcastle diocese in New South Wales from 1949 until 1990. In 1977-81, he was a chaplain at the Mater Misericordiae Hospital, Waratah (a suburb of Newcastle, NSW). In August 2002, a woman notified the New South Wales police that she had been indecently assaulted by Hughes while she was a patient at this hospital in March 1981. After beginning an investigation, detectives found that Hughes had died in 1996 and he therefore could not be prosecuted. Backed by Broken Rites, the woman then approached the Catholic Church's "Towards Healing" office. A private investigator, hired by the church, confirmed to Towards Healing that evidence "exists to support the complaint." See Broken Rites HERE.
Fr Glenn Humphreys
This Catholic priest (from the Vincentian religious order), who has ministered in several Australians states, was jailed in October 2014 for offences committed in Western Australia. See more from Broken Rites HERE.
Fr Bill Irwin
William Stanley Irwin was originally a Brother (and then a priest) in the Catholic Vincentian order. A Sydney court heard how the church authorities protected Irwin, concealing his criminal behaviour in a church file marked "Strictly Confidential". In 2011 a jury found Irwin guilty of two incidents of gross indecency against a youth whom he was "counselling". The judge imposed two six-months jail sentences, which were suspended upon Irwin undertaking a six-months good-behaviour bond. See Broken Rites here.
Fr Jim Jennings
James Patrick Jennings was once a Catholic priest in the Australia-wide Vincentian order. On 30 April 2014, Jennings (now aged 81), was jailed for child-sex crimes in Victoria in the 1960s. See more Victorian material from Broken Rites HERE, plus some New South Wales background from Broken Rites HERE.
Monsignor Penn Jones
By 1995, Broken Rites discovered evidence about Monsignor Penn Harold Jones (of the Melbourne Cathedral parish) that would have resulted in him being convicted by a criminal court but Jones died before police could charge him. After action by Broken Rites, the Melbourne archdiocese apologised in 2005 to two men who were sexually abused by Monsignor Jones while they were schoolboys in the 1960s. Jones, who was an accountant before entering the priesthood, became the Chancellor of the Melbourne archdiocese. See Brken Rites HERE.
Br Fabian Jordan
Christian Brother John Joseph Jordan (alias Brother "Fabian" Jordan, born 23 October 1927), worked at St Augustine's boys home and St Vincent's boys' home in Victoria; he later left the Christian Brothers and retired to South Australia. In 1999 he was sentenced to a 12-months good behaviour bond for indecent assault (i.e, touching) of a 13-year-old boy at St Augustine's in the early 1960s. This was not the only complaint about Jordan.
Fr John Keane, western Victoria
The Adelaide Advertiser reported on 6 January 1990 (page 2) from Melbourne:
"A Catholic priest pleaded guilty in Melbourne Magistrates Court yesterday to offensive behaviour in a public toilet. John Keane, 52, who gave his address as St Michael's Church, Wycheproof, was given a 12-month good behaviour bond. The prosecutor said plainclothes police saw Keane expose himself on April 13 last year."
Frank Keating
De La Salle Brother Frank Terrence Keating (alias Brother "Ibar" Keating) was sentenced to 8 to 36 months jail in Victoria in 1998, plus 12 months jail (suspended) in Queensland in 2000, all for multiple indecent assaults of boys in Catholic schools. Keating also taught in Western Australia and South Australia. See the Broken Rites story HERE
Fr Terrence Keliher
Father Terrence Thomas Keliher, aged 62, was sentenced in Brisbane in 2000 to 30 months jail (eligible for parole after 8 months) for indecently dealing with a girl, aged about 11. Keliher was friendly with the girls' parents, who were intellectually impaired, and he had officiated at the parents' wedding.
Fr Vincent Kiss
Father Vincent Keiran Kiss belonged to the Wagga Wagga diocese (NSW) but also worked and played in other areas, including Melbourne and the Philippines. In Sydney in 2002, then aged 70, he was sentenced to ten and a half years in jail (eligible for parole after seven years) for sex crimes against four teenage boys. He pleaded guilty to three charges of buggery and ten of indecent assault. See Broken Rites story here.
Fr Frank Klep
Father Frank Gerard Klep, of the Salesian order, Victoria, was convicted in 1994, 2005 and 2014 after 25 of his numerous victims had contacted the Victoria Police sex crime squad. His jail sentences totalled 15 years 6 months, with a total of 10 years 6 months behind bars. See the Broken Rites story here.
Marist Brother Kostka
In the Australian Capital Territory Supreme Court on 23 June 2008, Marist Brother John William Chute(born 13 June 1932), whose religious name is "Brother Kostka" (in honour of a 16th Century saint), was jailed after pleading guilty to sexually molesting four students when they were aged 13 and 14 at Canberra's Marist College in the 1980s. See Broken Rites here.
Paul Lane, seminarian, NSW
A seminary student, Paul Lane, committed child-sex crimes in the 1970s while he was training to become a Catholic priest in New South Wales. He eventually dropped out of the seminary. Forty years later, on 7 July 2014, one of his victims obtained justice by getting Lane convicted in court. See more from Broken Rites here.
Michael Lannen, ex-trainee priest
Michael William Lannen spent two years in the 1980s as a trainee priest at the Catholic seminary in Banyo, Brisbane. He later became a senior psychologist for Queensland's prison system. In 1996, aged 49, he was sentenced to four years jail after being found guilty of corruptly intimidating prisoners into engaging in oral sex with him in return for favourable reports regarding the prisoners' future. The prosecution said that Lannen held considerable power over the prisoners, regarding their early release or whether they were given leave of absence or home detention or were accepted into work-release schemes. Lannen's conviction relates to a period after he ceased being a trainee priest but the conviction is being included in this list, as a matter of public record, for the information of anybody who encountered Lannen in a church-related situation.
Fr Patrick Laws, of the Salesian order
The Catholic order of Salesian priests have acknowledged that a prominent Salesian, Father Patrick Laws, committed sexual offences against schoolboys in his custody. Laws' postings included Salesian colleges at "Rupertswood" (in Sunbury, Melbourne), Brooklyn Park (Adelaide) and Engadine (near Sydney). See more from Broken Rites HERE.
Br Bill Lebler
In 1951, aged 29, William John Lebler became among the first Australian-born recruits to join the St John of God Brothers, taking his vows at the order’s “Kendall Grange” institution for intellectually handicapped boys at Morisset, north of Sydney. He later worked with SJOG in New Zealand and Papua New Guinea. In 2003, prosecutors sought to extradite him from Australia to face trial in New Zealand on child-abuse charges there, dating back as far as 1955. However, a Sydney magistrate released William Lebler because of his age (82 years) and health and because of the delay in reporting his alleged offences. Lebler is also mentioned in another Broken Rites article HERE.
Christian Brother P.N. Lennox, in NSW
Former Christian Brother Peter Nicholas Joseph Lennox, who had a senior role in Catholic schools at Manly (in Sydney) and Goulburn (in southern New South Wales), has been committed for trial in Sydney, charged with child-sex offences, allegedly committed in the 1970s in the Catholic school system. To read more from Broken Rites, click HERE.

Fr Leo Leunig, Western Australia
Father Leo St Clair Leunig, then aged 66, of the Perth diocese, Western Australia, was sentenced to six years jail in 1994 after pleading guilty to 46 offences against three young boys between 1965 and 1969; and he was sentenced in 1995 to another 12 months jail for offences against another boy. The offences included indecent touching, oral sex and sodomy. The church authorities had known since 1979 about Leunig's criminal behaviour, but they retained him in the ministry and merely moved him from a one-parish appointment to a multi-parish role as a relieving priest. This meant that he had access to boys in the new parishes where he would be relieving. While he was relieving, Leunig lived for many years at the South Perth presbytery, which is adjacent to a primary school, but the church authorities did not warn the school's principal or parents about him. While Leunig was serving his jail sentence (and also after he was released), the Perth diocese defiantly continued to list him for years in the annual Australian Catholic Directories as a "supplementary" (relieving) priest of the Perth diocese.
Fr Bruce Little
In the Southport District Court (Queensland) on 2 February 1996, Father Bruce Francis Little (then aged 50) was fined $750 after pleading guilty to engaging in an indecent act in a public place. Little admitted to having oral sex performed on him by a man in a public toilet block at Pizzey Park, Miami, on the Queensland Gold Coast. The court was told that police arrested Little one afternoon as they patrolled the park, a popular playground for children. (Case reported in the Brisbane Courier Mail, the Gold Coast Bulletin and the Rockhampton Morning Bulletin, 3 February 1996.) Little, who was then a priest of the Brisbane archdiocese, later transferred to the Rockhampton diocese.
Marist Brother "Nestor" Littler
The Marist Brothers have admitted that Brother John Aloysius Littler (alias "Brother Nestor") committed sexual offences against boys during his long career in Catholic schools in Australia. Some of his victims have reported his offences to the police, while others are tackling the Marists for compensation and an apology. See more from Broken Rites HERE.
Raymond HughLogan
Logan was originally a De La Salle Brother (known as Brother "Pius Bernard") in NSW, W.A. and Victoria. He later worked as a lay teacher ("Mister" Logan) in NSW. He was convicted in 2000 for some of his NSW offences against boys. See Broken Rites HERE.
Fr Daniel Lyne, CP
In 2002, New South Wales police were about to prosecute Father Daniel Lyne in court for sexual offences against young males but suddenly he died and the court case could not proceed. Lyne (born 1937) was a Catholic priest in the Congregation of the Passion religious order (the Passionist Fathers). Originally, Father Lyne had taught in a Passionist "juniorate" at St Ives, Sydney (this was a secondary school for boys who were "aspiring" to become priests in the Passionist order). He later worked in Africa and India. See more from Broken Rites HERE.
Fr Bernard Mackin
In a statement to a Victorian Parliamentary inquiry in 2013, the Melbourne Catholic archdiocese admitted that Fr Bernie Mackin was a child-sex offender. After action by Broken Rites, the archdiocese has apologized to a female victim of this priest.
Marist Br John Dennis Maguire
Maguire sexually targeted eleven-year-old boys at St Joseph's College boys' boarding school in Hunters Hill, Sydney, in the 1980s. He was finally jailed in 2015. See the Broken Rites story HERE.
Br Edward Mamo, MSC religious order
In 2013 a Catholic former religious Brother, Edward Mamo (born in 1944) was jailed in Victoria after he pleaded guilty to indecently assaulting seven boys (aged as young as eleven) at Monivae College, a Catholic secondary school, at Hamilton, 290 kilometres west of Melbourne, in the late 1970s and early 1980s. He was jailed again in 2015 after some more of his victims contacted the police. Mamo also worked at Chevalier College (Bowral, NSW) and in accommodating Vietnamese refugees in Sydney. See more from Broken Rites here.
Br William Marchant
In 1995, Christian Brother William Edwin Marchant (then aged 59) was convicted for offences against a 12-year-old boy at Tardun boys' home, Western Australia, in 1967-68. He appeared in Broome Magistrates Court and was given a non-custodial sentence. By 1995, Marchant had left the Christian Brothers and was working as a drug and alcohol counsellor for an Aboriginal community. See more from Broken Rites HERE.
Marist Br "Denis" Martin, in NSW
Australia's national child-abuse Royal Commission was told in 2014 that Brother "Denis" Martin (real name Raymond Martin, born 2 February 1930) regularly committed indecent assaults of boys (as young as 12 years) in 1956-58 at the Marists Brothers "La Valla" boarding school in Bowral, NSW. This school recruited boys with a view to them becoming Marist Brothers, thus influencing these recruits to become child-abusers themselves.
Fr Denis McAlinden
This Irish-born priest belonged to the Maitland-Newcastle diocese in New South Wales, where he molested girls and women. This diocese then lent him to other dioceses around Australia (and in New Zealand and Papua New Guinea), keeping him out of the reach of the police as he continued to commit offences. Police accumulated evidence to prosecute McAlinden in court but when they finally caught up with him in 2005, he was in a church-run aged-care centre in Western Australia, where he died one month later. Since then, the Maitland-Newcastle diocese has been paying compensation to some of McAlinden’s victims. See the Broken Rites story here.
Fr Michael McArdle,
Father Michael Joseph McArdle, of the Rockhampton diocese in Queensland, was sentenced in 2003 to six years jail (with parole possible after two years) after pleading guilty to 62 incidents of indecent dealings against 14 boys and two girls between 1965 and 1987. McArdle told a journalist that the church was aware of his offences but it never alerted police or parishioners.
Fr Charles McCann
A young woman made a sworn statement to Victoria Police in 1993 that Fr Charles McCann, of St Kevin's parish, Templestowe, in Melbourne's north-east, had invasively mauled her breasts while she was asleep in bed in her family home when she was a teenager in 1983. McCann, who was a friend of the girl's family, was making a "home visit". Police interviewed McCann in 1993 and, as a result, of this interview, they gave him a summons to appear in court in March 1994 to answer a charge of indecent assault. However, the girl's parents and grandparents feared that the case would embarrass the church, so they pressured the young woman to withdraw the charge, threatening to disinherit her if she proceeded. Feeling defeated, the young woman withdrew the charge two days before the court hearing. The church authorities then felt justified in retaining McCann in the priesthood until he retired nine years later, in 2003.
Fr Peter McCudden, Western Australia
Numerous women have complained (separately) to Broken Rites that Father Peter McCudden committed sexual offences against them (when they were girls as young as ten or eleven) in Perth in the 1950s and 1960s.
Br Bernard McGrath
St John of God Brother Bernard Kevin McGrath was jailed in New Zealand in 1993, was jailed in Sydney in 1997, and was in jail again in New Zealand from 2006 to 2008. Any Australian victims of McGrath should have a chat with the Lake Macquarie detectives office in New South Wales, telephone 02-49429909. See more HERE.
Fr Ron McKeirnan
Father Ronald McKeirnan, of the Brisbane archdiocese, was sentenced to three years jail (one year minimum) in 1998, plus 3 yrs jail (suspended) in 2003, for offences against boys. See Broken Rites story here.
Fr Paul McLachlan
Father Paul McLachlan, of the Brisbane archdiocese, was sentenced to 3 yrs 8 months jail in 2000, plus 18 months jail in 2001, for offences against boys. McLachlan was formerly the head of Brisbane's Catholic Media Office for 19 years and appeared on television religious programs. See Broken Rites here.
Christian Brother Daniel McMahon, later a priest
Christian Brother Daniel John Virgil McMahon committed numerous child-sex crimes while he was working in the Catholic Education system in Western Australia (from the 1960s to the 1980s). In the early 1990s, he became a priest in Tasmania. By 2012, W.A. police had obtained evidence from one of McMahon's victims but McMahon was seriously ill and he died in Tasmania before the police could extradite him to a W.A. court to face the criminal charges. See more from Broken Rites HERE.
Br Gerard McNamara
Marist Brother Gerard Joseph McNamara (born 9 March 1938) was sentenced in Melbourne to three years jail (suspended) after pleading guilty to indecently assaulting six boys. McNamara, who taught mainly in Victoria, was originally known as "Brother Camillus" (not to be confused with another Marist Brother "Camillus" in Sydney). See the Broken Rites report here.
Br "Ossie" McNamara
Marist Brother Hugh Michael McNamara (born 7 March 1933) taught at St Joseph's College in Hunters Hill in Sydney as Brother "Oswald" McNamara until about 1978. He ceased being a Brother and then taught as a lay teacher at the Marist Brothers college at Ashgrove in Brisbane, where he was jailed in 1995 for indecently dealing with a boy. In Sydney in 1999, he was convicted of physical assault of a boy at St Joseph's College, Hunters Hill in 1970; and a charge of indecently assaulting the same boy was dismissed because of lack of witnesses.
Rick McPhillamy, cathedral acolyte
In 2011, Richard John McPhillamy (who has been an acolyte at the Bathurst Catholic Cathedral and who is a former assistant dormitory master at St Stanislaus College, Bathurst) was sentenced to a minimum of 12 months jail after he was found guilty of sexual crimes against two boys while he was working as an assistant housemaster at St Stanislaus College, Bathurst in the mid-1980s. See more from Broken Rites here.
Fr Terence Merivale
Father Terence Michael Merivale was a priest in the Melbourne Catholic archdiocese but left the priesthood. Later, in 2000, he was sentenced to six months jail after pleading guilty to seven charges of indecent assault (including one of digital penetration) on three young girls when he was ministering in St Bernard's parish, Belmont, Geelong, between 1969 and 1975.
Fr Murray Moffat
In August 2010, Father Murray Alexander Moffat, of Brisbane, was sentenced to 18 months jail, with the first three months to be spent behind bars and the remainder suspended for three years. He pleaded guilty to indecent treatment of a 12-year-old girl between 1977 and 1981. See the Broken Rites story here.
Br Rodger Moloney
This member of the St John of God Brothers has worked in Australia and New Zealand. In August 2008 in New Zealand, Rodger William Moloney, 73, was jailed for sexually abusing educationally-disadvantaged boys in Christchurch, N.Z., in the 1970s. He was released from jail in September 2009. The court was told that, after completing his sentence, he would be deported to Australia. Any Australian victims of Moloney should have a chat with the police sexual offences units in Australia. See more from Broken Rites about Moloney here. And see a Broken Rites background story about the St John of God Brothers in Australia here.
Fr Len Monk, western Victoria
The Catholic Church harboured a priest, Father Leonard Monk, in western Victoria for many years while he committed sexual crimes against boys. The victims say that the church's "holy" image intimidated them into not reporting Monk's crimes at the time. Now his victims would like to report him to the police but Monk has died and therefore the police can no longer arrest him. See more from Broken Rites HERE.
Marist Br. "Roland" Moran, Sydney
John Francis Moran (born in 1926) became Brother "Roland" Moran when he joined the Marists. He worked at Sydney's Westmead Boys Home and at Marist schools in Parramatta, Pagewood and Randwick. Complaints from alleged victims of Moran were received by Australia's child-abuse Royal Commission and were passed on to the NSW Police but Moran died in 2010 before he could be charged
Fr Syd Morey, Victoria
In a statement to a Victorian Parliamentary inquiry in 2013, the Catholic Church admitted that Father Sydney Morey was a known child-sex offender. Broken Rites has ascertained that the Ballarat diocese (covering western Victoria) has been forced to apologise to at least one victim of Morey. This priest was protected by the church while he committed crimes against young boys in the 1960s and '70s. Morey was originally a Marist Brother (in New South Wales) before becoming a priest. See more from Broken Rites HERE.
Fr Brian Morrison, in Melbourne and Perth
Fr Brian John Morrison (born in Melbourne, 1933) was originally a priest in the Blessed Sacrament Fathers but he left this order and went to Western Australia, doing some parish work in the Perth and Bunbury dioceses. He finally established the "Father Brian Crisis Care Centre" in Perth, raising money for disaster relief (East Timor etc). The church has received complaints about Morrison sexually abusing young people (a girl aged 14 in Melbourne in 1968 and a boy aged 14 in Perth in 1984).
Br Berchmans Moynahan
Brother Martin Joseph Moynahan (alias "Brother Berchmans"), St John of God order, died during prosecution (indecent assault at an institution in Melbourne for boys with intellectual disabilities). See a Broken Rites story about the St John of God Brothers here.
Br Terry Mulligan
Marist Brother Terence Mulligan was sentenced in Sydney in 2000 to 6 months periodic detention for indecent assaults against two boys. Mulligan met the two siblings through their Marist Brothers school at Auburn, in Sydney’s west. He assaulted the boys in the family's house. One of the victims, "Ricky" (aged 32 in 2000), said outside the court that the sexual abuse devastated his personal development. His life became a blur of drugs, alcohol and rage. Ricky’s wife said the effect of the abuse was being felt by her and the whole family.
Fr Gerard Mulvale
Father Gerard Joseph Mulvale, born 17 July 1948, from Western Australia, jailed 18-36 mths in Melbourne 1995 while he was a priest in the Pallottine order. See Broken Rites story HERE.
Br Lawrence Murphy
Christian Brother Lawrence Denis Murphy worked in Catholic boys' orphanages at Tardun, Castledare and Clontarf in Western Australia in the 1940s and '50s. In May 1997, he was arrested in Adelaide and extradited to Western Australia on charges of unlawful carnal knowledge and indecent dealing at the orphanages. In 1998 a West Australian magistrate ruled that there was indeed sufficient evidence for a jury to convict Murphy (then aged 80) but Murphy died before the the trial could be held.
Fr Hugh Edward Murray
This Catholic priest (from the Vincentian religious order) appeared in court in Sydney in 2010, charged with indecently assaulting boys in the 1960s and '70s. In July 2011, a judge granted Murray a permanent stay because of his advanced age (then 81 years) and health problems. See more from Broken Rites here.
Monsignor James Murray
In June 2000, Monsignor James William Murray, Geelong, Victoria (Melbourne archdiocese), was convicted and fined $500 after pleading guilty to having indecently assaulted a 25-year-old woman who had requested his pastoral care. See Broken Rites story here.
Fr "Max" Murray
After Father Magnus William Murray committed child-sex offences in New Zealand, he was transferred to Sydney, where he was allowed to minister in the Woollahra parish in 1972-76. His past was concealed from Sydney parishioners. He later returned to New Zealand, where he was sentenced in 2003 to five years jail after pleading guilty to ten representative charges of committing indecent assaults and indecent acts on four boys in New Zealand between 1962 and 1972. The Sydney archdiocese now denies that it breached its duty of care in allowing Murray to minister in Australia because (it claims) Murray was New Zealand's responsibility, not Sydney's.
Br Ross Murrin
On 10 March 2008, Marist Brother Ross Francis Murrin (born 10 June 1955) was sentenced to 39 months' jail, with a non-parole period of 18 months, after pleading guilty to indecently assaulting Catholic primary school boys in the 1970s. In February 2010, he received additional jail time after pleading guilty to sexually abusing another boy at a later school. See Broken Rites story here.
Brother Robert John N*****
This former De La Salle Brother, received a ten-year jail sentence in NSW in February 2002 (when aged 55), eligible for parole after 6 yrs (the judge granted the offender a name-suppression order). See Brokien Rites story HERE.
Fr Martin Newbold
Australia's national child-abuse Royal Commission has been told how the Catholic Church allowed a priest, Father Martin Newbold, to commit sex-crimes against young girls. The church concealed his crimes from the police and transferred him from Western Australia to Melbourne (and then back to W.A.) to protect him. Thus the church inflicted this criminal on more victims in new parishes. See more from Broken Rites HERE.
Br Peter E. Noonan, Victoria
The Christian Brothers Order has acknowledged that Brother Peter Eymard Noonan (born about 1949) used to commit sexual offences against young schoolboys who were in his custody. Despite this, it allowed Noonan to remain a Brother until he died in 2004, aged 55. This Noonan (not to be confused with other Noonans in the Order) was offending from the very start of his teaching career — at St Mary's boys' school, St Kilda (in inner-Melbourne) in the late 1960s. He later taught at St Kevin's College (Toorak). In 1985 he went to CBC St Kilda, where he became the headmaster in 1987.
Br Dominic Obbens
Christian Brother William John Obbens (also known as Brother "Dominic" Obbens) has been jailed in New South Wales for child-sex abuse committed while he was a teacher in the Catholic school system. To read more from Brokenk Rites, click HERE.

Fr Ross O'Brien
In Glen Innes Local Court in New South Wales in May 1993, Father Thomas Ross O'Brien (then aged 57) was charged with indecent assault of a hitch-hiker, whom he had picked up between Lismore and Casino on 22 October 1992. Magistrate Chris Bone found the offence proved and placed Father O'Brien on a $100 good-behaviour bond for 18 months. (Reported in the Glen Innes Examiner 28 May 1993 and mentioned again in the Sydney Sunday Sun-Herald 19 March 2000.) Father O'Brien belongs to the Armidale diocese. When in court in 1993, he was ministering at the Glen Innes parish. He was later located at the Armidale Cathedral and then in the Quirindi parish. In several editions of the annual Australian Catholic Directory (e.g., the editions from 1997 to 2004), he was listed as the contact person for the "Continuing Education of Clergy" in the Armidale diocese — that is, he has been involved in the training of priests.
Fr John O'Callaghan, Melbourne
In a statement to a Victorian Parliamentary inquiry in 2013, the Melbourne Catholic Archdiocese admitted that Father John Ignatius O'Callaghan was a known sex-offender against young people. Broken Rites has ascertained that O'Callaghan was once a chaplain for the girls' section of the Young Christian Workers (YCW) movement. He later worked in Melbourne suburban parishes and was a military chaplain. See more from Broken Rites about O' Callaghan's child-sex offences HERE. Father O'Callaghan observed the church's rule of priestly "celibacy" (that is, he did not get married to anybody); instead, in the 1980s, he had a private relationship with a woman, who gave birth to Father O'Callaghan's TWO CHILDREN.
Br Damien O'Dempsey
In Brisbane in 1994, Christian Brother Damien John O'Dempsey (then aged 46) was sentenced to 18 months' jail (with parole after four months) after pleading guilty to six counts of indecently dealing with a 15-year-old boy at St Mary's Christian Brothers College, Toowoomba, Queensland, in 1987. In 1998, O'Dempsey was summoned to a magistrates' court again, facing 22 charges (indecent dealing and carnal knowledge) involving another boy at a Townsville school in 1981-84. The magistrate ordered O'Dempsey to stand trial, which was listed for 1999. However, a tragedy occurred in the family of the alleged victim and the trial was abandoned. See the Broken Rites report here.
Fr Kevin O'Donnell
Father John Kevin O'Donnell, Melbourne archdiocese, was sentenced to 15 months jail for offences against children, mainly boys. Broken Rites helped O'Donnell's victims to obtain justice. See Broken Rites story here.
Fr David O'Hearn
In 2016, after seven years of legal proceedings, Father David Anthony O'Hearn (of the Maitland-Newcastle Catholic diocese in New South Wales) was sentenced to jail (18 years maximum, with possible earlier release on parole). See more from Broken Rites HERE.
Fr Thomas O'Keeffe
In a statement to a Victorian Parliamentary inquiry in 2013, the Melbourne Catholic archdiocese admitted that Father Thomas O'Keeffe was a known child-sex offender. After action by Broken Rites, the archdiocese has apologised to some of O'Keeffe's altar boys. See the Broken Rites story here.
Fr John O'Regan
This priest ministered with the Catholic order of Oblate Fathers, in Queensland and Western Australia and possibly elsewhere. In September 1998, Queensland detectives began investigating O'Regan regarding indecent assaults of girls at Nazareth House girls' home, Wynnum North, Brisbane, in the 1950s and '60s. But O'Regan died during this prosecution process. See the Broken Rites story HERE.
Marist Brother "Dominic" O'Sullivan
A Marist Brother, Darcy John O'Sullivan (also known as "Brother Dominic"), was jailed in September 2016 after he pleaded guilty to indecently assaulting boys while he was teaching in Catholic schools in northern New South Wales in the 1970s and '80s. See more from Broken Rites HERE.

Br John Parker
Various news media outlets reported that Christian Brother John David Parker appeared in the Melbourne Magistrates Court on 22 March 1995, charged with sexual assault of a nine-year-old boy in Grade 4 at Parade Christian Brothers College junior school in Alphington (in Melbourne's inner north-east) in 1958. Brother Parker contested the charge. Magistrate Phillip Goldberg committed Brother Parker (then aged 60) for trial and listed the matter to go to a judge in the Melbourne County Court for 19 June 1995. However, alleged victim opted not to proceed to the trial, as he was satisfied with having succeeded in getting his allegation aired in the Magistrates Court. In the Christian Brothers, Parker adopted the religious name John "Neri" Parker (there was once a Saint Neri) and was listed as Brother J.N. Parker. Brother Parker has also taught at other Catholic schools in Victoria, including Ballarat (St Patrick's primary school, Drummond Street) in the 1970s and Mill Park (St Francis of Assisi primary school) in Melbourne's north in the 1990s. He also taught with the Christian Brothers in Tasmania.
Brother Paschal, a Franciscan
The Franciscans (the Order of Friars Minor) have been forced to acknowledge that Brother Paschal Bartlett (real name Ernest Joseph Bartlett) was a child-abuser. This Brother was in charge of the altar boys at the Mary Immaculate Catholic parish in Waverley, Sydney, in the late 1960s and early 1970s. See more from Broken Rites HERE.
Fr Paul Pavlou
On 29 June 2009, Melbourne diocesan priest Father Paul Pavlou (then aged 50) pleaded guilty to committing an indecent act with a 14-year-old boy and another charge of possessing child pornography. He was given an 18-months jail sentence (suspended) plus a two year community-based sentence (to be served by doing community work). See more from Broken Rites here.
Br Peter Pemble, New South Wales
This Marist Brother was jailed on 23 July 2015 for indecently assaulting a schoolboy in Maitland NSW in 1971-1972. Later in his career, Brother Peter Pemble became the principal of several Catholic schools in Sydney before retiring in 2009. See more from Broken Rites HERE.

Fr Dave Perrett
Father David Perrett, who was a "chaplain" to Aborigines in the Armidale diocese in northern New South Wales, was convicted in 1996 after pleading guilty to sexual crimes committed against young Aboriginal boys. He has since been the subject of further complaints. See more from Broken Rites HERE.
Fr Dominic Phillips, Vincentian priest
In a statement to a Victorian Parliamentary inquiry in 2013, the Melbourne Catholic archdiocese admitted that Father Dominic Phillips (a member of the Vincentian Fathers religious order) committed sexual offences against young girls while he was ministering in a Melbourne parish. See more from Broken Rites HERE.
Fr Kevin Phillips
In Sydney on 21 April 2011, Fr Kevin Francis Phillips (of Mackay in the Rockhampton diocese in Queensland) was jailed after pleading guilty to offences against a boy at St Stanislaus College (a boys' boarding school) in Bathurst, New South Wales, in 1990. See the Broken Rites story here.
Fr Ron Pickering
For years, Father Ronald Dennis Pickering was protected by the Melbourne Catholic hierarchy. In late 1993 he suddenly fled from Australia to England, fearing that one of his victims would talk to police. The police eventually obtained enough evidence for a prosecution but were discouraged by the problem of locating Pickering in England (although the Melbourne archdiocese secretly knew his England address) and also the problem of extraditing him to Australia for the court proceedings. The Melbourne Catholic Archdiocese, which had long known about Pickering's liking for boys, admitted that Pickering was an offender and it made civil settlements with some of his victims, so as to limit the church’s financial liability. See the full Broken Rites article here.
Fr Terry Pidoto
On 17 September 2007, Father Terrence Pidoto, of the Melbourne archdiocese, was sentenced to seven years and three months' jail (with a minimum of five years before becoming eligible for parole) on charges of buggery and indecent assault against boys. To see more from Broken Rites, click HERE.
Ex-Brother Alan James Pollock, in NSW
Originally, Pollock was a trainee Brother in the Catholic religious order of Patrician Brothers but later he left the brotherhood and then worked as a lay teacher in Sydney Catholic schools, where he committed sexual crimes against children. Years later, eleven of his victims reported his crimes to the police. Finally, in 2014 he was jailed. To see more from Broken Rites, click HERE.
Priest #1, Adelaide
In Adelaide in 1989, Catholic Church authorities tried to conceal a priest's court case. In Holden Hill Magistrates Court, Adelaide, on 21 July 1989, this diocesan priest and another man were found guilty of indecent behaviour and were each fined $100. Late on a summer's night, police had found the pair lying under bushes near Walkerville oval, engaging in sexual activity. The priest also was originally charged with giving a false name and address. Church lawyers persuaded the court to prohibit the media from publishing the priest's name but media lawyers contested this application. The Supreme Court lifted the suppression order and the case was reported fully, with names, in the Adelaide "Advertiser" and "Sunday Mail" during July 26-30, 1989. Archbishop Leonard Faulkner wrote in a letter to all priests on 7 June 1989: "In reflecting my decision that [this priest] continue his ministry at [his parish], I remembered my own shortcomings and those of a number of our brother priests." The priest is still in charge of an Adelaide parish.
Priest #2, Adelaide and northern Sydney
This priest was a mature-age entrant to the priesthood. He was recruited by (and was trained for) the Adelaide diocese, where he worked in parishes in the 1970s and '80s. While visiting Cairns, Queensland, he was caught wilfully exposing himself on a beach. In a Cairns court on 27 July 1987, he pleaded guilty and was fined $100. After this, the church authorities transferred him to the Broken Bay diocese, in the northern suburbs and outskirts ofSydney, where he was put in charge of parishes, including parish schools. In February 1995, the Cairns court case was revealed in the "Manly Daily", Sydney (circulating in the Broken Bay diocese), in an article headed "Shock of priest's past: Parents stunned at exposure case". The priest verified this report.
Fr "Joseph" Pritchard
Father Peter Harold Pritchard (alias Fr "Joseph" Pritchard), of the St Gerard Majella religious order in the Parramatta diocese, NSW, was sentenced in 1997 to 6 years jail (four years minimum) after pleading guilty to charges of buggery, intent to commit buggery, and indecent assault involving seven trainee Brothers and another young male, all aged 16 to 21, over a 19-year period. See Broken Rites story here.
Fr David Rankin, SJ
In Sydney in 2014 Father Gregory David Rankin (then aged 79), of the Jesuit Order, was given an 18-months jail sentence (with 12 months of this to be behind bars) after pleading guilty to historical acts of indecency on young boys in Sydney. He had lived as a Jesuit priest in Melbourne, Sydney, Canberra and overseas. See more from Broken Rites HERE.

Fr David Rapson, Victoria
In 1992 Catholic priest David Edwin Rapson (of the Salesian religious order) was jailed for sexually assaulting a boy in a Catholic school in Melbourne (see Broken Rites HERE). In 2015 he was convicted regarding another boy (see Broken Rites HERE).
Fr Ernest ("Chappy") Rayson — in Melbourne, Sydney Perth
Catholic Church authorities admit that young males were targeted by Father Ernest "Chappy" Rayson, a member of an Australia-wide religious order called the Blessed Sacrament Fathers. He ministered at: St Francis church in Lonsdale Street in central Melbourne; St Peter Julian's in George St, Sydney; and All Saints Chapel in Perth. At least one victim eventually reported Rayson's offence to the police but Rayson can no longer be arrested because he died in 1996. Rayson ran choirs and he befriended HIV/Aids sufferers.
Fr Michael Reis, MSC religious order
Father Michael Francis Reis (known as Mick Reis), who has taught at Monivae College in Victoria and Downlands College in Queensland, was sentenced in Brisbane on 6 November 2008 to 18 months jail (with a minimum of six months) for offences against two young girls in the 1980s and 1990s. See Broken Rites story here.
Christian Brother "Neil" Richards
Christian Brother Desmond Eric ("Neil") Richards has been jailed in New South Wales for sex crimes against schoolboys. See more from Broken Rites HERE.
Fr Gerry Ridsdale
Father Gerald Francis Ridsdale, Ballarat diocese, Victoria, has pleaded guilty to indecently assaulting a total of 40 children (mostly boys). In April 2014, after he had been in jail for 20 years, some more years were added to his previous sentence because some more of his earlier victims came forward. See the full Broken Rites story HERE.
Br Gregory Riley
Christian Brother Francis Riley (known as Brother Greg Riley), New South Wales, was sentenced in 1999 to three years jail after pleading guilty to 17 counts of indecent assault against boys.
Fr Robert Rippin
Former students (who do not know each other) have told Broken Rites that a criminal offence (indecent touching) was committed on them (repeatedly) by Father Robert Frederick Rippin, a priest in the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart order, at MSC secondary schools around Australia: Chevalier College (Bowral, NSW), Downlands College (Toowoomba, Queensland) and Monivae College (Hamilton, Victoria).
Br Chris Roberts, Sydney
Christian Brother John Vincent Roberts (also known as Brother "Chris" Roberts) has been jailed for crimes committed against Catholic children in South Wales. Roberts has also taught in Canberra. See more from Broken Rites HERE.

Fr Stephen Robinson
In 1998, Father Stephen Joseph Robinson (then aged 51), who was then a Catholic priest in the St Gerard Majella order in the Parramatta diocese, NSW, was sentenced to a minimum of 18 months' jail for acts of indecency on two trainee Brothers. See Broken Rites story HERE.
Fr Victor Rubeo
Father Victor Gabriel Rubeo, Melbourne archdiocese, pleaded guilty in 1996 to having indecently assaulted two boys in a previous parish (Laverton in the 1960s). On 28 October 2011, Rubeo appeared in court again, charged with additional incidents from the 1960s and was ordered to re-appear on 16 December 2011 for a full hearing but he died (aged 78) before this next hearing date. See the Broken Rites story here.
Marist Br. "Gerard" Rush, Victoria
Br. Michael Gerard Rush (born in 1940 and known as Brother "Gerard") has been jailed for child-sex crimes committed while he was working in Marist Brothers boys' schools in Victoria. See more from Broken Rites HERE.

Fr Paul-David Ryan
Father Paul David Carl Ryan, Ballarat diocese, Victoria, was sentenced in 2006 to 18 months jail (12 months minimum) for offences against boys. See Brokien Rites story HERE.
Fr Vince Ryan
Father Vincent Gerard Ryan, of the Maitland-Newcastle diocese, NSW, was sentenced in 1996-97 to 16 years (minimum of 11) for offences against boys. See the Broken Rites story HERE.
Fr Jim Scannell
In 2014 a Melbourne jury convicted Father James Henry Scannell, 88 (of the Melbourne Catholic archdiocese), on a charge of buggery, committed against a 12-year-old boy more than 40 years ago. See more from Broken Rites HERE.
Fr Peter Searson
This Melbourne diocesan priest pleaded guilty in a magistrates' court in 1997 to physically assaulting a 12-year-old altar boy. The police also had evidence of sexual abuse committed by Searson, but Searson chose to plead guilty to the physical abuse, thereby ensuring a more lenient sentence. The court ordered Searson to observe a good-behaviour bond. Also in 1997, the Melbourne archdiocese's Commissioner on Sexual Abuse investigated certain other allegations about Fr Searson, involving a number of women, boys and girls. See the Broken Rites report HERE.
Fr Kelvin Sharkey
On 29 April 2010, Father Kelvin Gerald Sharkey (a priest of the Wollongong Catholic Diocese in New South Wales) was sentenced to a minimum 15 months in jail after pleading guilty to buggery and indecent assault of an altar boy. See the Broken Rites story here.
Jack Shea
John Rowan Shea was originally a priesthood trainee in Melbourne archdiocese and was later a prominent layman (a "good Catholic") in Melbourne parish affairs and in the St Vincent de Paul Society. In 1996, aged 73, he was sentenced to three years jail (minimum of one year) for offences against boys in his "care" in church-related situations in the 1970s. There have also been allegations that he abused boys while he was a football coach at a Catholic school, Whitefriars College, in Melbourne in the 1960s.
Fr Les Sheahan, Victoria
In 2015, Father Leslie John Sheahan (Ballarat diocese) was jailed for indecently assaulting young girls in some of his earliest parishes, in the 1960s. See more from Broken Rites HERE.
Fr Hugh Shearer, Tasmania
The Catholic Church's professional standards office in Tasmania has accepted a complaint by a man that he was sexually abused (when he was a homeless teenager in the late 1970s) by Father Hugh Shearer in the priest's house at Invermay, Launceston. A similar complaint was made in 1996 by another man (now deceased) who said he was abused (as a homeless teenager) by Fr Shearer in the same house in 1977.
Br Terence Simpson,
former Christian Brother Terence Simpson, Brisbane, was sentenced to two years jail (suspended) for offences against boys. See Broken Rites story here.
Marist Brother John Skehan
He was convicted in 2010 and 2014 for child-sex crimes committed at Marist Brothers boys' schools in Victoria and New South Wales in the 1970s. See more from Broken Rites HERE.
Fr Michael Slattery
On 9 August 2007 a Catholic priest from Western Australia, Father Michael Slattery, was sentenced in Sydney District Court to an 18-months jail sentence (suspended, with a good-behaviour bond) after he pleaded guilty to committing three acts of indecency (masturbation) in the presence of a schoolgirl, who was aged 14 to 15. The offences occurred in 1981-82 while Slattery was a lay teacher at a North Sydney Catholic girls school before becoming ordained as a priest for Western Australia. See more from Broken Rites here.
Fr Brian Spillane
In late 2016, Father Brian Joseph Spillane (of the Vincentian religious order) was in jail after a series of trials in New South Wales concerning his crimes against 18 boys and some girls. See the Broken Rites story HERE.
Br "Bartholomew" Spratt
Marist Brother Peter Richard Spratt (born 2 August 1937) was originally known as "Brother Bartholomew". His teaching jobs included Marist Brothers Lismore (in northern NSW) in the 1960s and, later, Marist College in Canberra. In 1996 he was convicted in NSW after pleading guilty to two acts of indecency, committed against a 14-year-old boy in 1979. Brother Bartholomew Spratt also taught at Marist Brothers, Pagewood, Sydney. See more from Broken Rites HERE.
Brother David Standen, New South Wales
In February 2016, Christian Brother William Peter "David" Standen, 67 (who had worked at schools in Sydney, Penrith and Goulburn, NSW), pleaded guilty to offences committed against boys at St Patrick's College Goulburn in 1978-81. See more from Broken Rites HERE.
Fr John Stockdale, Victoria
The Catholic Church harboured Father John Peregrine Stockdale for decades in parishes in the Sandhurst (Bendigo) diocese, covering northern and north-eastern Victoria, while he committed offences against boys. His priestly status protected him from the police. In 1995, Father Stockdaleale died while celebrating New Year's Eve in a sex-cubicle at a males-only club in Melbourne. See the Broken Rites story here.
Br Gregory Sutton
Marist Brother Gregory Joseph Sutton (born 1951) taught in 1973-1987 at Catholic primary schools (in Queensland, New South Wales and Canberra).He admitted committing numerous crimes against young girls and boys. When a family complained to the NSW police, the Marists gave him a trip to Canada. He then became principal of a Catholic school in the U.S. NSW police brought him back to Australia, where he was jailed in 1996 for a maximum of 15 years (with parole possible after 12 years) for his NSW crimes. In 2014, Australia's national child-abuse Royal Commission examined how the Marist Brothers had harboured this criminal. See more from Broken Rites HERE.
Fr John Sweeney
Father John Gerard Patrick Sweeney, St Gerard Majella order, Parramatta diocese, NSW, 18-27 months jail. See Broken Rites story here.
Fr Tadeusz Swiatkowski
Father Tadeusz Swiatkowski, of the Society of Christ (a Polish religious order in Australia), appeared in a Brisbane court in 1994 for soliciting a prostitute (he later moved to Mayfield West, Newcastle, NSW).
Alan Swingler
Alan Edward Swingler (born in September 1941) was originally a Marist Brother but left the Marist order and became a lay teacher of religious studies at St Joseph's Christian Brothers' College, Geelong, Victoria, where he stayed for 18 years. In 1996 Swingler, aged 54, was sentenced to seven years jail (minimum of five years) on one incident of buggery, three incidents of gross indecency and nine of indecent assault of boys. Outside the court, the mother of one victim said that, even after the family complained to the school about the crimes, the school kept Swingler on its staff.
Br Colgan Taylor
Broken Rites is researching Marist Brother "Colgan" Taylor (real name Lancelot Kenneth Taylor), who was sentenced in November 2002 to 18 months' jail (including four months behind bars) after pleading guilty to sexual offences against two very young girls (one of them intellectually disabled) in central Queensland between 1979 and 1983. Despite his conviction, the Marists allowed Taylor to remain in their Order. These girls were not Taylor's first (or only) victims. See more from Broken Rites here.
Br Aubrey Tobin, Victoria
The Marist Brothers have acknowledged that Brother "Aubrey" Tobin committed sexual assaults against boys at Marist schools in Victoria. Two of his victims, who were assaulted in the mid-1980s, later committed suicide because of the damage done to their lives. Br Aubrey's birth name is believed to have been Michael Tobin, but the Marists assigned him the religious name "Brother Aubrey" in honour of a medieval saint. His schools included Assumption College (Kilmore) and St Paul's College (Traralgon), plus other schools. See the Broken Rites story here.
Br Peter Toomey
Christian Brother Peter John Toomey pleaded guilty in 2005 to offences against 10 boys at Trinity Regional College in Brunswick, Melbourne, in the 1970s. He was finally sentenced to 4 years 3 months jail, with parole after 2 years 6 months. Originally the sentence was 27 months jail (with parole after six months) but this was increased after an appeal by the prosecution, on behalf of the victims. Toomey also taught at St Patrick's College in Ballarat, Cathedral College in East Melbourne and elsewhere. See Broken Rites story here.
Fr John Treacy
Father John Leslie Treacy (born 30 October 1943) was ordained on 19 May 1972 and belongs to the Sandhurst diocese in northern Victoria, where his original parishes included Tatura, Beechworth, Tallangatta, Wodonga and Rushworth. In 1993 he pleaded guilty to indecently assaulting a boy from one of his parishes and was given a non-custodial sentence (good-behaviour bond). The Sandhurst diocese later arranged for Treacy to move to Queensland, where Queensland bishops accepted him to minister in parishes and as a hospital chaplain, while he continued to be officially listed as a priest of the Sandhurst diocese.
Fr Adrian Van Klooster
Father Adrian Richard Van Klooster, Western Australia and NSW, was sentenced in 2003 in W.A. to 8 yrs jail for offences against boys and girls. He was released on paroie after five years behind bars. See Broken Rites story HERE.
Paul Van Ruth, a former Brother
On 4 March 2011 Peter Paul VAN RUTH, of Adelaide, was jailed after he pleaded guilty to indecently assaulting two boys in 1969 while he was a religious Brother at Salesian College, "Rupertswood", Sunbury, Victoria. See the Broken Rites story here.
Br Geoffrey Veness
Marist Brother Geoffrey Sydney Veness (born 30 September 1953) was sentenced to 12 months jail (suspended) after pleading guilty to offences against a boy who was a pupil at St Augustine's College, Cairns, Queensland.
Fr Peter Waters, Melbourne
Father Peter Maurice Waters was prominent in the Melbourne archdiocese until 1999, when the archdiocese was forced to admit to the media that it "has received and accepted the findings of Mr Peter O’Callaghan QC, the Independent Commissioner, which accepted the accusations of four complainants against Father Peter Waters." Because of the media exposure, the archdiocese had to stop giving Fr Waters any more parish appointments in Melbourne, although it paid him retirement benefits. In 2019, Peter Waters was convicted on criminal charges. See more from Broken Rites HERE
Br Keith William Weston
Christian Brother Keith William Weston, Melbourne, was sentenced to 30 months jail (suspended) for offences against boys. See the Broken Rites court story here. Also, see an article by a Weston victim HERE.
Fr Ray Whitehouse
In a statement to a Victorian Parliamentary inquiry in 2013, the Melbourne Catholic archdiocese has admitted that Father Raymond Whitehouse was a child-sex offender. After action by Broken Rites, the archdiocese has apologised to one of Whitehouse's altar boys. See more from Broken Rites HERE.
Fr Murray Wilson, of the Vincentian order
After committing serious sexual crimes against children, this Catholic priest died died mysteriously in 1979 at the age of 44 (by inhaling gas at St Stanislaus College in Bathurst NSW), before his victims could bring him to justice in court. In 2006, after action by Broken Rites, the Vincentian Fathers' Australian office apologized to one of Wilson's victims, who was a 13-year-old boy in Victoria. See more from Broken Rites HERE.
Br Lambert Wise, Adelaide
In a South Australian court in 2009, former Christian Brother Francis Lambert Wise (born in 1920) was accused of two counts of buggery and five of indecent assault, allegedly committed against two schoolboys in the 1960s. At age 89, he was found to be too medically unfit to stand trial. Therefore, in 2009 a judge held special hearings, enabling two of Wise's former pupils to have their allegations aired in court. Thus, the South Australian public was able to learn of the allegations. See more from Broken Rites here.
Fr Leo Wright
Father Leo Daniel Wright, Brisbane archdiocese, was jailed for 3 yrs (1995) and 18 months (1997) for offences against girls and a boy. See Broken Rites story here.

The above list is confined to Broken Rites cases — that is, criminal cases in which Broken Rites Australia gives support to victims either before or after the court proceedings.

For civil out-of-court cases, see Section B, below.

And Sections A and B are confined to priests and religious brothers (including trainees). For lay teachers in church schools, see some examples in Section F, at the bottom of this page.

Section B:
Out-of-court civil cases,
researched by Broken Rites

As well as the above-listed criminal cases (which would be conducted by the police), a victim can also take out-of-court civil action against the Catholic Church authorities for having inflicted the offender upon the victim. This can force the church to acknowledge the harm that has been done to the victim's life (including harm done by the church’s tradition of cover-up). This can give the victim a sense of empowerment. Sometimes this action can force the church to give a written apology to the victim. Perhaps, the church might even offer to reach a private settlement with the victim, as the church often regards this as a cheap way of protecting the church's public image and its assets.

Here are a few examples of cases (researched by Broken Rites), in which victims could tackle the church authorities for justice.

Brother Pascal Alford
The Catholic order of Christian Brothers has made settlements with sex-abuse victims of Brother Donald Pascal Alford at St Augustine's boys' home, Geelong, Victoria. See our story here.
Fr David Anderson
The Lismore Catholic diocese in northern New South Wales has been tackled by numerous victims who say they were sexually abused by Father David Anderson (full name Clarence David Anderson). For example, one complaint concerned two brothers, aged 14 and 9, who encountered Anderson while he was ministering in Macksville, including Nambucca Heads (on the mid-north coast), in 1966-68. The boys' father had died, so their mother allowed this priest to "befriend" the boys, because the boys "needed a father". Another complaint concerned two brothers, aged 9 and 15, who encountered Anderson when he ministered in the Tweed Heads parish (near the Queensland border) in 1969. These latter two brothers, likewise, were from a fatherless family; and they, too, were "befriended" by Anderson.

Fr Herbert Balding
In 1997, after consulting Broken Rites, a Melbourne woman (Noreen) complained to the Melbourne Catholic archdiocese about a hospital chaplain (Father Herbert Balding, a member of the Jesuit order). In 1978, when she was a married woman aged in her thirties, Father Balding targeted Noreen sexually while she was in a vulnerable state, seriously ill, as an in-patient at Melbourne's Mercy Hospital. The abuse disrupted her recovery and her later life. The archdiocese complaints commissioner (Peter O'Callaghan, QC) accepted the complaint and ruled that Noreen had indeed been sexually abused by Balding.
Br Bede (St John of God order)
Former inmates of four homes operated by theHospitaller Order of St John of God have complained to police or the Catholic Church and/or Broken Rites that they were sexually assaulted by Brother Bede Donnellan (real name John Joseph Donnellan). Separate complaints came from four locations -- Chelthenham, Greensborough and Lilydale (all in Melbourne) and the Granada Hostel in Ashgrove (Brisbane). Bede Donnellan died in 1995. See more about the St John of God order here.
Br. C. Beeden, Melbourne
Broken Rites is researching Christian Brother C. Beeden, who taught in the late 1960s and early 1970s at St Mary's boys' parish primary school (next-door to Christian Brothers College) in East St Kilda, Melbourne. According to a Senate report. Brother Col Beeden had previously worked in church orphanages in Western Australia.
Br. Matthew Bell, De La Salle
Broken Rites is researching De La Salle Brother Matthew Placidus Bell (real name Michael Allan Bell, born 17 January 1930) who taught at Katoomba NSW in the 1950s and later at other Catholic schools.
Br Luke Beltram, De La Salle
Two families (one in Victoria and one in New South Wales) have complained about Brother Luke Beltram, a religious teacher in the Catholic order of De La Salle Brothers. Luke Francis Beltram was born about 1947. His teaching appointments included De La Salle schools at Dandenong VIC, Dubbo NSW, Malvern VIC, East Bentleigh VIC and (finally) Castle Hill NSW. He died on 10 March 2000, aged 53. See our story here.
Br Benildus, De La Salle order
The Catholic order of De La Salle Brothers has accepted and settled complaints by former students (now elderly) who were sexually abused by "Brother Benildus" at De La Salle's Oakhill College in Castle Hill (north-west of Sydney) in the 1950s. This senior Brother was born as Laurence de Moulin but adopted the religious name "Brother Benildus Joseph" in emulation of a 19th century "Saint Benildus". At Oakhill (a boarding school), he taught primary-school boys at Year Six level or thereabouts, and he supervised the boarders, including in their dormitory. Benildus later worked at St Bernard’s Junior College, "Clairvaux" (which was then a boarding school in Katoomba NSW), where (according to former pupils) he was again sexually intrusive.
Br "Bertinus"
In 2010, Australian Marist Brothers held a ceremony to "praise and congratulate" six long-serving Brothers — including a one who was formerly known as Brother "Bertinus". A few months earlier, the Marists' Australian administration had apologised to three ex-pupils for an encounter which each of them allegedly had with Brother "Bertinus" many years ago in their school days. See the Broken Rites report HERE.
Fr Glenn Boyd, Wagga Wagga diocese
In 2004, Father Glenn Boyd left the priesthood of the Wagga Wagga Catholic diocese in southern New South Wales after issues had been raised about aspects of his youth work. See more here.
BoysTown (De La Salle Brothers, Queensland)
In 2011 the Catholic religious order of De La Salle Brothers agreed to offer an out-of-court settlement to a former pupil, who lived in the 1960s at BoysTown (a Catholic institution for disadvantaged boys) in Beaudesert, Queensland. Similar complaints have come from others who were there in later decades. See more here.
Fr F.X.Brown (in the Dominican order)
A former Catholic altar boy ("Cedric", born in 1950) has told Broken Rites about his experiences at the hands of Father Francis Xavier Brown (a Catholic priest in the Dominican religious order) in Adelaide around 1960. Cedric says he still feels hurt (half a century later) by his experience as an altar boy. See more HERE.
Fr Joseph Caldwell
Two women, who do not know each other, have complained in Western Australia about being molested by Father Joseph Caldwell. He was a member of the Salvatorian order of Catholic priests, which is also known as the Society of the Divine Saviour. One complainant said she was abused in 1977, aged 8, and the other said she was abused in 1984 and 1985, aged 9 and 10. Both women told Broken Rites that the abuse (and the secrecy about it) adversely affected their personal development into their adolescence and adulthood. Born in Ireland, Caldwell had worked as a priest in many countries before coming to Australia. His parishes in Western Australia in the 1970s and '80s included Greenmount, Dampier, Wickham and Midland. In 1980-81 he served in Western Australia's Bunbury diocese. West Australian police have ascertained that Caldwell left Australia in the late 1980s and later died in Ireland.
Br Brendan Carroll, De La Salle
In 2005 and 2006, after action by Broken Rites, the De La Salle Brothers in Australia apologized to two women for sexual abuse by Brother Brendan George Carroll when they were young girls. He was an uncle of the Most Reverend Francis Carroll, who became the archbishop of Canberra-Goulburn in 1983. See more from Broken Rites HERE.
Marist Br "Celsus" Fahey, NSW
Multiple victims have complained about Marist Brother Francis Fahey ("Brother Celsus"), who taught at Lismore, New South Wales (not to be confused with a different Brother "Celsus" in the Marists' Melbourne province).
Chevalier College, Bowral, NSW
Some ex-pupils of Chevalier College (a Catholic high school near Bowral in southern New South Wales) are still recalling allegations that a Catholic priest behaved indecently towards young boys at the school in the late 1980s. This school is owned by a religious order, the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart. See more here.
Br A.D. Collopy
Former students of the Christian Brothers in two states — at St Bernard's College (Essendon) in Melbourne and Trinity College in Perth — have complained about being indecently touched by Brother Anselm Dunstan Collopy, who served for a time on the Provincial Council (that is, the leadership team) of the Christian Brothers in Western Australia and South Australia.
Br Colmcille, Trappist monk, Melbourne
Born in Ireland as Thomas Clifford, he adopted the Gaelic "religious" name Colmcille (pronounced Kollum-Kill) in honour of an ancient Irish missionary, Saint Columba (in Gaelic, also spelt as Colum Cille). Until 1974, Colmcille lived at Tarrawarra Abbey in Yarra Glen, east of Melbourne. This is the Australian address of the Cistercian Monks — also known as the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance (O.C.S.O.) or the order of Trappist monks. Two women, who do not know each other, have complained (separately) that they were digitally raped, at the age of nine, by Brother Colmcille when their families (and others) used to visit this monastery about 1969-1970. Brother Colmcille later returned to Ireland, leaving damaged victims in Australia. The Cistercian order has apologised for harm done by Colmcille.
Fr Ernie Conlan, MSC order
Broken Rites has received well-documented complaints that young girls were sexually abused by Father Ernest Conlan, a member of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart (MSC), who was prominent in Tasmania. These girls were abused between 1958 and 1963, when Father. Conlan was "ministering" in a parish at Kings Meadows, near Launceston. As Conlan "befriended" the local families, the young girls felt that they could not tell their parents about the abuse at the time, but they have disclosed the abuse in recent years, five decades after the events. In 1965, Conlan went to Adelaide (at the Sacred Heart parish, Hindmarsh). In the 1970s and 1980s, he was a chaplain at St Vincent's Boys' Home, Westmead, in western Sydney.
Monsignor Joseph Conway
The Port Pirie Catholic diocese, which includes the northern parts of South Australia, has acknowledged that Monsignor Arthur Joseph Conway sexually abused boys. Conway, who was evidently called by his middle name (Joseph), died in 1975 but victims are still feeling the hurt. Conway was given an elaborate grave and victims protested about this. Monsignor A.J. Conway's later years were spent around Quorn, Orroroo and Carrieton (all east of Port Augusta).
Ronald Conway, Catholic psychologist
This Melbourne therapist was highly regarded by Catholic Church leaders and he received many of his clients through Catholic hospitals and other Catholic agencies. He allegedly touched some of his young male clients sexually. These clients have grounds for demanding, at least, an apology from the church authorities. Ron Conway also acted for the church authorities in "screening" men who wished to become trainee priests in Victoria. See more from Broken Rites here.
Fr Frank de Dood
In a settlement deed dated 7 February 2008, the Salesians of Don Bosco (a Catholic religious order) settled a complaint from a former student who was a boarder at "Rupertswood" Salesian College, Sunbury, Victoria, in 1982-83. The settlement deed states that the ex-student has alleged that he was sexually abused by Fr Francis de Dood and Father Frank Klep. The deed says the ex-student claimed that, "as a result of such assaults, he has sustained loss, damage and injuries that may require specialist counselling and therapy." Reverend Frank de Dood is still listed in the Australian Catholic Directory as a Salesian priest.
Br Richard Doheny, Sydney
Various ex-students have complained about the sexually-abusive behaviour of this member of the Catholic order of Patrician Brothers in New South Wales. He was born (real name John Doheny) on 3 September 1935 in Ireland (at Balingarry, Thurles, County Tipperary), the third youngest of twelve children. He became a Patrician Brother in Ireland (becoming "Brother Richard") and arrived in Australia in 1956, aged 21. He lived and worked (at primary and junior secondary levels) in Patrician Brothers schools in western Sydney (at Fairfield, Blacktown and Granville) until 2009.
Fr Patrick Doherty, Armidale Diocese, NSW
The Catholic Church’s professional standards office in New South Wales has received a complaint from an elderly man who says he is still upset about having been sexually abused by Father P.G. Doherty when the complainant was a schoolboy in the Armidale diocese (in north-western NSW) in 1944-49. The boy was attending a Catholic parish primary school (aged seven to twelve) in Bundarra (between Armidale and Inverell). This school is closed now and the Bundarra parish (St Mary of the Angels) is administered now from Uralla. In 2008, when this complaint was being considered by the Armidale diocese, the diocese was acting evasively, which is a frequent response from church authorities. Father Patrick Doherty’s other parishes included Walcha, Bingara, and Warialda. This priest died in the 1950s and is said to be buried in the Armidale cemetery. It is common for a church victim to be still upset by childhood abuse many decades many years after the original cover-up, as shown by a similar case here.
Fr Frank Donovan, Redemptorist priest
The Catholic Church's Professional Standards Office in New South Wales has "accepted the veracity" of two complaints about Father Francis Donovan, a priest of the Redemptorist Fathers (also called the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer). Two women, acting separately, had complained that Donovan molested them when they were young girls in the late 1970s in buildings attached to the Sacred Heart parish church in Campbell's Hill,Maitland. See our story here.
Fr Rex Donohoe
In 2007, after action by Broken Rites, Archbishop Adrian Doyle of Hobart gave a written apology to a former altar boy of Fr Rex Donohoe. The archdiocese accepted a complaint that Donohue abused this victim in the Kingston parish in Tasmania in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Donohue specialised in the "training" of altar boys and this victim says that he was not the only altar boy who was abused by Donohoe. Donohoe established the Australian "Guild of St Stephen", an organisation for altar boys. Donohue was later at Tasmania's Lenah Valley parish and was also the Hobart diocesan master of ceremonies.
Fr Bob Drake
Broken Rites is researching Father Robert Drake, of the Sandhurst diocese in northern Victoria. In the 1970s his parishes included Wangaratta and Wodonga in Victoria's north-east. After that, he worked outside the diocese — at a seminary in Papua New Guinea in the 1980s and at the Banyo seminary in Brisbane, Queensland, in the 1990s. Back in Victoria again, he was at the Chiltern parish in 1998 and at St Joseph's parish, Quarry Hill (in Bendigo) from 1999 to 2006.
Br K.E. Duckworth, Melbourne
Broken Rites is researching Christian Brother Keith Evin Duckworth, who touched boys inappropriately at the Parade College junior campus (for years 7 and 8) in Alphington, Melbourne, in the 1970s.
Fr Aidan Duggan, Sydney
This priest worked in Sydney parishes including Bass Hill, Gymea, Camperdown and Drummoyne before he retired in 1995 (he died in 2004). In 2002 a Sydney man (John Ellis, aged 40) complained to the Catholic Church's "Towards Healing" office that, when he was a 14-year-old altar boy at Bass Hill (near Bankstown) in 1975, he suffered serious sexual assaults by Father Duggan. This abuse (and the church's code of secrecy) disrupted John Ellis's adolescent development, leading to problems in his personal life and his professional career (as a solicitor) during his twenties and thirties. Through Towards Healing, the Sydney archdiocese offered John Ellis a small out-of-court "ex gratia" payment provided that he would sign a Deed of Release giving up his legal right to take court action against the archdiocese for a proper amount of compensation. John decided, instead, to sue the archdiocese in the New South Wales Supreme Court for a more appropriate sum to cover his loss of his professional earnings. In 2006 the Supreme Court granted permission for John's case to proceed in court, but the archdiocese successfully appealed to the NSW Court Appeal, thus blocking John's case. The church's victory is known in legal circles as the "Ellis Defence". Subsequently this precedent has disempowered all church-victims throughout Australia. To read more about the church's "Ellis Defence", click HERE.
Archbishop James Duhig
Three women, who do not know each other, have complained to Broken Rites that they were sexually abused in Queensland by Archbishop James Duhig when they were young. For example, one woman said she was assaulted by Duhig when she was living in the Brisbane Cathedral parish in 1941 aged six. James Duhig was Catholic Archbishop of Brisbane for 50 years until 1965.
Br Wilfred Eastmure
Christian Brother Wilfred Eastmure worked at St Augustine's orphanage and St Vincent's orphanage in Victoria. See our story here.
Br M.J. Esler, Victoria
A woman ("Cathy") has forced the Australian leadership of the Christian Brothers to give her a written apology for having been touched indecently by Brother Maurice Esler when she was a child in Victoria. Originally, when Cathy contacted the Catholic Church's Professional Standards Office in Sydney, the PSO was evasive. But Cathy persisted and finally extracted the apology from the Christian Brothers.
Brother Eunan or "Union"
The Catholic order of De La Salle Brothers has settled with some victims of Brother John McHugh, whose religious name was "Brother Eunan", which some of his ex-pupils pronounce as yoon-yon as in "trade union". (There was once a Saint Eunan in Ireland.) Born in Ireland, Eunan McHugh was one of a significant number of Irish-born religious personnel who surfaced in Australia. In the early 1950s, Eunan McHugh taught and supervised boys at two schools in Katoomba, west of Sydney: "Clairvaux"" (the junior school of St Bernard’s College, Katoomba); and St Canice's parish primary school, Katoomba. At Clairvaux, a boarding school, Brother "Union" was in charge of a dormitory and he himself slept next to the dormitory. Later in the 1950s, he taught at De La Salle College in Cronulla, in Sydney's south (and this school, too, had boarders).
Br P.T. Farrell, St Virgil's College, Hobart
In 2006, the Christian Brothers made a civil settlement with a former student of St Virgil's College in Hobart, Tasmania. This ex-student had told Broken Rites in 1993 that, when he was a boarder at St Virgil's (aged seven to eight) in the mid-1950s, he was sexually assaulted by Brother Patrick Timothy Farrell. This Brother, who was nicknamed "Jacky" Farrell at St Virgil's, was in charge of the junior dormitory for several years until mid-1957. After that, he worked in various Christian Brothers institutions in Sydney.
Marist Brother Stephen Farrell
The Marist Brothers head office in Sydney has settled complaints about child-abuse involving Marist Brother Stephen Farrell who died in 2004, aged 81. He taught for many years in New South Wales and Queensland. See more here.
Br Fintan, De La Salle schools
Brother Fintan Dwyer worked in De La Salle schools around Australia. Various ex-pupils have complained that Brother Fintan touched them sexually. His birth name was Louis Victor Dwyer. "Brother Fintan" was his "religious" name. Brother Fintan (not to be confused with a colleague, Brother Finian Allman) toured De La Salle schools, recruiting boys as future Brothers. He died in 1990. See our story HERE.
Fr Dominic Fitzmaurice
After action by Broken Rites, the Australian head of the Dominican Fathers apologised to a woman for sexual assaults committed by Father Dominic Fitzmaurice in Our Lady of Graces parish at Carina in Brisbane in 1972, when she was aged 12. See our story here.
Fr Bill Fleming, Boys Town, NSW, 1979
During the trial of Father Paul Raymond Evans in Sydney District Court in July 2008, one of Evans's victims (from Boys Town school near Sydney) told the court that, after he was molested by Evans in 1979, the assault was reported to the school administration. The boy said he was later told by the school's head, Father William Fleming (a member of the Salesian order) to forget about the incident because "men have urges". The court heard that Father Fleming allegedly assaulted another boy, who had also made allegations against Evans. Fleming was the rector of Boys Town during the 1970s.
Fr Leo Flynn
The Melbourne archdiocese has apologized to a woman for sexual abuse committed by Fr Leo Flynn, a priest of the Jesuit order. At the time of the abuse, Flynn was working in a parish which the Jesuit Fathers were staffing on behalf of the Melbourne archdiocese. At first, the woman complained to the Jesuit order (the Society of Jesus) but the Jesuit administration ignored her.Broken Rites then helped the woman to present her case to the Melbourne archdiocese. The archdiocese accepted the woman's account and apologised (this was reported in the Melbourne "Herald Sun" on 8 May 2000).
Br Greg Fogarty
Broken Rites is researching Christian Brother Leo Gregory Fogarty (known as Brother GREG Fogarty) who worked at St Augustine’s boys' orphanage (in Geelong, Victoria) from 1978 to 1985 inclusive; he became the superintendent there in 1979. See some background about St Augustine's orphanage here.
Fr Julian Fox
In 2000, a Catholic order of priests in Australia (theSalesians of Don Bosco) made a settlement with a Melbourne man (Luke, born in 1964). According to the settlement deed (whichBroken Rites has inspected), Luke alleged that "over a period of time between 1978 and 1979, whilst a student at Salesian College, Rupertswood, Sunbury [Melbourne], he was unlawfully sexually and/or physically assaulted by Fr Fox". In 2006, six years after the settlement, Luke died, aged 42. Father Fox was given a position at the Salesian headquarters in Rome. See more from Broken Rites HERE.
Fr Laurie Gallagher, Marist Fathers
Broken Rites is researching Father Lawrence Gallagher, S.M. (a member of a religious order, the Society of Mary), who taught at Marist College inBurnie, Tasmania, in the 1970s and early 1980s. In the late 1980s he was at St John's College, Woodlawn, in Lismore New South Wales. He was also a relieving minister in parishes around Australia. For example, in 1991, he was the Parish Priest in charge of St Thomas More's parish at Margaret River (in the Bunbury diocese) in Western Australia. It is believed that he formerly served as a missionary in Japan. This Laurie Gallagher is not to be confused with a former diocesan priest of the same name in Victoria.
Fr Gerald Goss
Women in several parts of Australia have complained to Broken Rites that they were indecently assaulted by this priest, who was a member of the itinerant Redemptorist order, visiting countless parishes throughout Australia. His victims included housekeepers in parish presbyteries, as well as women parishioners.
Br Julian Hackett
Christian Brother Vincent Julian Hackett was the superintendent of St Augustine's orphanage, Geelong, Victoria. See more from Broken Rites here.
Br "Anselm" Hallam
This member of the De La Salle Brothers was born as Tom Hallam and adopted the "religious" name Anselm (sometimes also spelt Anselem), which was the name of a medieval "saint". "Brother Anselm" Hallam taught in the late 1960s at St Joseph's parish primary school, Malvern, in Melbourne, and also taught middle-school students at the neighbouring De La Salle College. According to numerous victims, he was a notorious molester. He invasively mauled the genitals of his pupils. He gave "sex lessons" (really just "dirty talk"), while masturbating under his clerical frock. A female teacher, who knew what Anselm Hallam was doing, complained to the school's head Brothers but they were not interested. Anselm Hallam died in the early 1990s, aged 92. One of his victims, who became a successful professional, has contributed an interview to the oral history collection at the National Library of Australia about his own professional career, and he included an account of his experiences at the hands of Brother Anselm Hallam.
Fr John Harcombe
Several people have complained that, as children or teenagers in Sydney in the 1970s, they were sexually abused by Father John J. Harcombe. This priest was ordained, about 1972, from St Paul’s Seminary for Late Vocations, in Kensington, Sydney. He ministered in the Sydney archdiocese (and also in the Broken Bay diocese, north of Sydney) at parishes in Lewisham, Gosford, Auburn South, Lakemba, Epping, Asquith and Kincumber.
Fr Guy Hartcher
In March 1994, the Catholic order of Vincentian Fathers (officially called the Congregation of the Mission) signed a civil settlement with a former student of St Stanislaus College in Bathurst, New South Wales. This student was at the school in 1971, when he was aged 14. In the settlement Deed of Release, the Trustees of the Vincentian Fathers state that this agreement is "in full and final settlement" of all or any rights and actions that the ex-student may have "against the Trustees, Father Guy Hartcher or any servant or agent of the Trustees." See our story here.
Br Bernard Hayes
A man, "Roger", contacted Broken Rites in 2004, stating that he had been sexually abused by Brother Bernard Robert Hayes at the Christian Brothers College preparatory school in Alphington, Melbourne, in 1969. Roger described how the abuse had damaged his psychological development and wrecked his marriage. Broken Rites advised Roger about how to tackle the Catholic Church.authorities. After much evasiveness, the Christian Brothers' Melbourne headquarters accepted a report by a church psychologist and gave Roger a letter of apology and eventually (in 2006) signed a civil settlement with Roger. Brother Hayes's previous schools were: St Monica's Boys' School, Moonee Ponds VIC, 1942-44; St Kevin's College, Toorak VIC, 1944-55; Rostrevor College, Adelaide, 1955-60; and St Joseph's College, Pascoe Vale VIC, 1960-66. When Roger was abused at Alphington in 1969, Brother Hayes was aged 47. The Alphington campus, which comprised Grades 7 and 8, was a preparatory school for Parade College, Bundoora, Melbourne.
Fr Cletus Heffernan, Sydney
Broken Rites is researching Father Cletus Joseph Heffernan, who was at St Brendan's parish, Annandale, Sydney, from 1949 to the 1980s,
Fr Len Henry, prominent in "sacred music"
The Sydney archdiocese has signed a settlement with a victim who was sexually abused by Father Leonard John Henry — one of Australia's most prominent promoters of "sacred music". The church gave Father Henry access to choirboys in Sydney, Melbourne, Tasmania and northern New South Wales. See more from Broken Rites HERE.
Br P.R. Heslin, Melbourne
The Christian Brothers have acknowledged sexual offences that were committed against boys by Brother Robert Heslin in Melbourne. Heslin’s various schools included: Our Lady of Mount Carmel College, Middle Park; St Joseph’s, Pascoe Vale; and St Bernard’s College, Essendon.
Fr Anthony (Tony) Hicks, Melbourne
The Independent Commissioner for the Melbourne Catholic archdiocese has upheld a complaint by a Melbourne woman about sexually abusive behaviour by Fr Anthony (Tony) Hicks in the 1970s when she was 15 years old. The Archbishop of Melbourne, Peter Comensoli, has issued a written formal apology to her in 2019 in relation to this matter. See more here.
Br "Callixtus" Hogan
Broken Rites has helped three former schoolchildren (two males and one female) to extract a settlement from the Marist Brothers regarding incidents that allegedly occurred in New South Wales in the 1960s while Brother Kevin "Calixtus" Hogan was the principal of St Francis de Sales College (in Leeton) and Red Bend Catholic College (in Forbes). See more here.
Marist Br. "Crispin" Hopson
In 2014, Australia's child-abuse Royal Commission was given information about Marist Brother Kevin Nicholas Hopson (religious name Brother "Crispin"). From the 1950s to the 1990s, he worked at Marist Brothers schools in Sydney (at Mosman, Daceyville, Lidcombe, Hunters Hill and Kogarah), as well as at Marist College Canberra. To see more from Broken Rites, click HERE.
Marist Brother Edward Hosey at Coogee NSW
The Marist Brothers in New South Wales have made a small civil settlement with a former pupil ("Max"), who was at Marcellin Junior College (a primary school for boys in years 5 and 6) in 1973. This campus, which was then at 160 Coogee Bay Road,Coogee (Sydney), was a feeder school for the secondary-level Marcellin College at Randwick. Max made a formal, signed statement to the NSW police on 24 June 2003, alleging that he was mauled sexually by Brother Edward (his mathematics teacher) almost daily during 5th Grade, when he was aged 10. Brother Edward John Hosey (born 4 February 1911) has died and therefore the police cannot charge him. Max says the corrupt circumstances of this church-abuse disrupted his education and his adolescence, leaving him with serious difficulties in adulthood. In August 2003 the Marist Brothers promptly accepted Max's complaint and arranged a civil settlement, although this does not make up for the disruption to Max's life. Other victims of Hosey have contacted Broken Rites.
Brother Maurice Howard
The Christian Brothers harboured this paedophile in their schools throughout his long career as a Brother in Victoria (mainly), Tasmania and South Australia. See more from Broken Rites HERE.
Fr Cuthbert Hoy, MSC
In early 2002, a woman ("Anne") contacted Broken Rites, complaining that, when she was aged six in 1963, she was sexually assaulted on several occasions by Father Cuthbert Hoy, in the sacristy of "Our Lady of the Sacred Heart" church at Henley Beach in Adelaide. Hoy was a priest of theMissionaries of the Sacred Heart order, which conducted the Henley Beach parish, plus some other parishes around Australia. By 1966, Hoy had moved to a Hobart parish, also conducted by the MSC order. Broken Rites advised Anne about preparing a case for the Catholic Church's "Towards Healing" process. The MSC order gave Anne a written apology and, in 2003, it made a settlement with her.
Fr Laurie Jennings, Bathurst diocese, NSW
A woman told Australia's national child-abuse Royal Commission in 2015 that, in the 1970s when she was in her mid-teens at Cowra parish (within the Bathurst diocese), Father Laurence Jennings required her (as a loyal Catholic) to perform oral sex on him. Jennings came from a family of "career" Catholics (he had two aunts who were nuns; and several of his brothers and sisters were priests and nuns). He eventually achieved the rank of Monsignor and "Prelate of Honour" and became the Chancellor of the Bathurst diocese.
Fr Kevin Johnston, Western Australia
Born in Ireland, Father Kevin Daniel Johnston served as a priest in Western Australia's Bunbury diocese from 1959 until 1997, when he retired to Ireland. The West Australian newspaper (February 16 and 26, 2005) revealed that Johnston was facing child-sex allegations. A man (Alan) alleged that at the age of nine or 10 in the early 1970s, when he was serving as an altar boy in morning Masses at Bunbury's St Patrick's Cathedral, the cathedral parish priest Kevin Johnston indecently mauled him on several occasions in a dressing room. The priest also allegedly forced the boy to indecently touch the priest. Unable to tell his devout parents, the boy became a grumpy and rebellious teenager, ending up with a hard-drug addiction. In his thirties, trying to mend his life, Alan finally complained to the Bunbury diocese. Fr Johnston then gave Alan a written apology, dated 26 August 1997, and soon retired to Ireland. In November 2004, the Bunbury diocese offered Alan a small payout to settle the complaint but Alan rejected this amount as insufficient to help his recovery. After the February 2005 publicity about Johnston, two more men reported that they were molested by Father Johnston, one during confession and the other more than 20 times as he served as an altar boy at the Bunbury cathedral. Broken Rites research indicates that during the last stages of his career, from the mid-1970s to 1997, Johnston ministered in parishes at Boyup Brook, Manjimup, Narrogin and Leschenhault/Australind.
Fr Charles Joyce, OFM
Broken Rites is researching Father Charles Joyce, a member of the Order of Friars Minor (Franciscans), who was working at Padua College (a secondary school conducted by the Franciscan order) in Kedron, Brisbane, in the late 1960s.
Marist Brother Norman Keyes, Sydney
A victim of Br Norman Charles Keyes (at Marist Brothers Penshurst in Sydney in 1976) submitted a report about Keyes' offences to Australia's national child-abuse Royal Commission in 2014. Keyes was not the only criminal at this school; others included Brother "Kostska" Chute and lay teacher Robert "Dolly" Dunn.
Fr Clem Kilby, Tasmania
The Hobart Archdiocese has accepted and settled a complaint from a woman who said that she was sexually assaulted by Fr Clement Kilby. This priest had enjoyed a prestigious ranking in Tasmania. In the late 1970s, he worked in St Mary’s Cathedral parish in Hobart (where the priest in charge at the time was Rev. Geoffrey Hylton Jarrett, who eventually became the bishop of Lismore, New South Wales). Later, Kilby was given the rank of Episcopal Vicar for Welfare and was director of the Catholic Church’s Centacare Family Services in Hobart during the 1980s and 1990s. Ironically, Kilby also participated in a church committee that dealt with professional standards, including issues of sexual abuse — an obvious conflict of interest. He died in early 2009.
Br Clim Kissane
The Victoria-Tasmania province of the Christian Brothers has signed a civil settlement with a male former pupil of Brother Clim Kissane. Brother Kissane taught at various schools including: St Joseph's College in Geelong; St Virgil's College in Hobart; St Joseph's College in Pascoe Vale (Melbourne); Warrnambool Christian Brothers College (now called Emmanuel College) in Victoria; and St Joseph's Technical College, South Melbourne.
Fr Don Lane, Jesuit
Australia's Jesuit headquarters have acknowledged abuse committed by Father Richard Donal (Don) Lane, who worked at Jesuit schools (Xavier College in Melbourne; St Aloysius College at Milsons Point in Sydney and St Ignatius College at Athelstone in South Australia). He also spent periods working as a relieving priest in parishes throughout Australia.
Br Anthony Leahy, St John of God
Brother Anthony Vincent Leahy (born about 1948), a former head of the Catholic "Hospitaller Order of St John of God" in Australia, has had sex-abuse complaints made against him at a St John of God boarding institution for disadvantaged boys, called "Kendall Grange", at Morriset, north of Sydney, New South Wales. He also worked in Papua New Guinea and with Aboriginal communities in Australia.
Br P.N. Lennox, Sydney
In June 2012 the Christian Brothers organisation in Australia signed a settlement with a former pupil of Christian Brothers College at Manly (in Sydney), who attended this school as a 13-year-old boy about 1973. According to the settlement deed, this ex-pupil alleges that he was "unlawfully assaulted by Brother Peter N. Lennox, the principal of the school". [The former CBC Manly is now called St Paul's Catholic College, Manly.] See more from Broken Rites HERE.
Marist Br. Leon Mackey, New South Wales;
The Marist Brothers have paid settlements to former pupils who complained about sexual abuse by Brother Leon Mackey in Sydney and Newcastle. Brother Leon (real name Noel Mackey, born 31 July 1922) left the Marist Order in late 1955, changed his name to Noel Desmond Dowling and worked in administration for Mount Isa Mines, Queensland, until 1983.
Br "Norbert" Mathieson
This Marist Brother (real name Joseph Eric Mathieson), who last taught at Marist schools in Parramatta and Eastwood (in Sydney), died in 1954 but, half a century later, former students still remember him as a sex-abuser. His victims were intimidated into silence but some of the victims (now elderly) have finally told their sons and daughters about this abuse. Thus, these sons and daughters are dismayed and angry that their fathers were secretly harmed in this way. See our story here.
Fr Patrick Maye
The Melbourne Catholic archdiocese promised to ban this priest after accepting sexual-abuse complaints from several women but it failed to enforce the ban on him completely. See more from Broken Rites HERE.
Br L.C. McAllen
Former pupils, now advancing in age, still feel the injustice of having been abused by Christian Brother L.C. McAllen at St Patrick's College, Strathfield, Sydney, in the early 1960s. See more from Broken Rites here.
Fr Patrick McCarthy, Wollongong NSW, 1960s
Broken Rites Australia is researching Fr Patrick Thomas McCarthy, who ministered in the Wollongong diocese in New South Wales until the early 1970s. McCarthy's parishes included: Corrimal (St Columbkille's parish); Thirroul (St Michael's parish), West Wollongong (St Teresa's); and Helensburgh (Holy Cross parish).
Fr John McCulloch, Sydney region
Broken Rites is researching Fr John McCulloch, who ministered around Sydney (e.g., Katoomba parish in the 1980s). At Toukley and Gwandalan (on the coast, north of Sydney) he conducted "family camps for families in need."
Br Thomas McGee
After action by Broken Rites, the Victorian province of the Christian Brothers has apologised to victims of Brother William Thomas McGee. Brother McGee worked at several Christian Brothers' orphanages: in Bindoon and Castledare in Western Australia; St Augustine's orphanage, Geelong, Victoria; and St Vincent's boys' home, South Melbourne. He also worked at St Vincent's hostel, South Melbourne. See our story here.
Fr Bob McNeil, Sydney
Since 2006, the Sydney archdiocese has accepted (and settled) complaints from some victims of Father Robert McNeil. Despite his offending, McNeil was protected during his career (from the 1950s to the 1990s) by his friends in the church hierarchy.
Br "Laetus" Mennie
Former residents of St Vincent's Boys' Home at Westmead (in western Sydney), which was operated by the Marist Brothers, have complained about this Marist Brother (his birth name was Joseph Michael Mennie). Brother Laetus worked at this home in 1947-49 and was the director there in 1965-67.
Fr Gerard Monaghan
The Canberra-Goulburn Catholic diocese has been forced to apologise to a woman who was sexually abused by a priest (Fr Gerard Monaghan) immediately after the death of her husband. See the Broken Rites story here.
Fr Peter Moore, Wollongong NSW
Broken Rites is researching Father Peter Moore, who was the vicar-general of the Wollongong Catholic diocese in New South Wales in the 1980s and 1990s, while he was also in charge of St John Vianney's parish in Fairy Meadow. In the 1970s he had been at St Paul's parish, Albion Park.
Fr Brian Moran, Toowoomba diocese
Two women, who do not know each other, have complained that, when they were young girls in the early 1960s, they were sexually abused by Father Brian Anthony Moran, of the Toowoomba diocese, which covers an extensive region in western Queensland. Father Brian Moran, who was born about 1929, was sometimes nicknamed Mick Moran. He ministered until 1995 throughout an area bounded by Toowoomba city, Dalby, St George, Cunnamulla, Mitchell and Miles.
Fr John F. Moran, Rockkhampton & Sydney
A man ("Tom") reported to Broken Rites in 1994 that, as a 15-year-old in 1981, he was indecently assaulted by Father John Fabian Moran in the Sacred Heart parish at Yeppoon, in the Rockhampton diocese, in central Queensland. The boy's parents were away from home and they understood that Father Moran would be supervising him. The parents had been led to believe that their child would be safe under the supervision of a Catholic priest. Father Moran visited the boy and took him on outings. After beginning with playful "wrestling", Father Moran allegedly mauled the boy's genitalia on several occasions, and Tom allegedly was required to masturbate the priest. The boy felt intimidated into silence and was not able to tell his Catholic parents about the assaults until he was aged 26 (he contacted Broken Rites at age 27). According to the Crimes Act, an adult who sexually mauls a young person is committing "indecent assault of a child" and the perpetrator is not allowed to claim, as a defence, that the child consented. This crime is regarded as being particularly aggravated when it is perpetrated by a person supposedly in a position of trust, such as a priest. Later in the 1980s and early 1990s, Fr John Moran was a chaplain at Rockhampton's Emmaus College (a secondary school). About 1994-95, he was on the staff at St Paul's Seminary for Late Vocations in Sydney and was a part-time school chaplain in Sydney.
Br. "Organ" Morgan, Monivae College, Victoria
Leaders of a Catholic religious order — the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart — have apologised for sexual acts committed by Brother G.M. Morgan on boys at Monivae College at Hamilton in western Victoria in the 1960s. Students nicknamed this Brother as "Organ" Morgan because of his indecent assaults on boys' genitals. Broken Rites possesses a written apology , which the MSC leadership gave to one ex-student, dated 22 February 1994. Morgan was not the only such offender on the Monivae College staff.
Fr Roger ("Gabriel") Mount
The Catholic "St John of God Brothers" religious order, which operated homes for disadvantaged boys in New South Wales and Victoria, has paid settlements to several former inmates who made allegations about Brother "Gabriel" Mount. This Brother later became a priest in Papua New Guinea, where he became known as Father Roger Mount. See more from Broken Rites HERE.
Fr Gerald Moylan, northern Victoria
Women have complained that Father Gerald Leo Moylan (of the Sandhurst diocese in northern Victoria) harassed them verbally about "sex" when they were schoolgirls in Wodonga, Victoria, in the 1960s (or when women were interviewed by Moylan before a church wedding ceremony). In the 1970s and ‘80s, Moylan was in charge of the Numurkah parish and was appointed as the "spiritual director" of the Catholic Women’s League in the diocese. He was promoted to the rank of monsignor.
Fr Noel Murphy, Sydney
The Sydney archdiocese has apologised to female victims of Father Nolan Joseph Murphy (known as Fr "Noel" Murphy), who was at St Monica's parish in Richmond (in Sydney's north-west) in the 1960s and at St Augustine's parish in Balmain (inner-Sydney) in the 1970s and 1980s. His earlier parishes (before Richmond) included Campsie, Rozelle, Lithgow, Rockdale, Balgowlah, Rockdale, Clovelly, Enmore and Toronto.
Murrumburrah parish, NSW
A man ("Peter"), born in 1961, made a lengthy, detailed written statement to a clinic of the New South Wales Health Department in 2002, stating that in 1968-69 he was sexually assaulted by a senior parish priest (a Monsignor) in the "Our Lady of Mercy" parish at Murrumburrah, near Cootamundra, southern New South Wales (within the Canberra-Goulburn diocese). Shortly after the period of alleged abuse, the monsignor died in a road accident. As commonly happens in church-abuse cases, Peter felt intimidated (by the church culture) into remaining silent about the abuse until he was in his mid-thirties. His adult life was seriously affected by the cover-up.
Fr "Jerome" Myszkowski
A South Australian woman ("Mandy", born in 1945) says she is still feeling upset about having been sexually assaulted repeatedly by a Polish-born priest, Father Hieronim Myszkowski, when she was a young child in the St Francis Assisi parish in Newton, Adelaide, in 1950-54. This priest, who was known in Australia as Fr Jerome Myszkowski, was a member of the Capuchin Franciscan Friars (the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin). He befriended Mandy's family and, from when the girl was aged 5, he made weekly visits for meals at their home, where (Mandy says) he would secretly touch Mandy's genitalia (i.e., the crime of indecent assault). Mandy was unable to tell her parents because they believed that priests could do no wrong. Father Jerome also molested Mandy inside the church (while parishioners, including her father, were attending choir practice) and in his bedroom in the presbytery. On the church premises, the sexual assaults of Mandy became more invasive and more criminally serious. The attacks continued for four years until Mandy was aged nine, in 1954, when Myszkowski left Adelaide to become a chaplain for the Brisbane Polish community, which was based at "Our Lady of Victories" parish in Bowen Hills, Brisbane. Mandy contacted Broken Rites in October 1993. She had written to the church authorities about Myszkowski but, she said, they were evasive. Broken Rites does not know if Mandy has achieved a successful outcome since then.
Marist Brother Don Newton, NSW & Queensland
Marist Brothers leaders in Australia have received a complaint against Brother Donald Brodie Newton, made by a former schoolboy (who was at Marist Brothers Maitland in the late 1970s). This Brother Don Newton is not to be confused with a De La Salle Brother of the same name. See more HERE.
Br Nicholas, Marist Brothers, 1948-50
A man ("Brian", born in 1938) complained to the Catholic Church "Towards Healing" process in 2003 that he was sexually abused by a Brother "Nicholas" at a Marist Brothers school in Rosewater, South Australia, about 1948 when he was aged 10. Brian said he was forced to remain silent about the abuse at the time but he now realises that this code of silence was unfair, putting more children at risk. The Marist Brothers administration in Melbourne acknowledged to Brian that Brother Nicholas (real name Kevin Stanton, born 6 September 1922) taught at the Rosewater school in 1948, and he transferred to a Marist Brothers school inThebarton (Adelaide) in 1949. In 2005, the Marist administration in Melbourne apologised to Brian for his unhappy experiences at the Rosewater school, and it made a relatively modest "ex gratia" payment to Brian to settle his complaint. Brian was not Nicholas's only victim — in 1994 Broken Ritesreceived a complaint from another man ("Daryl", born 1942), saying that he was sexually abused by Brother Nicholas at the Marists' Thebarton school, before Nicholas left there in 1950. The Marists say that Brother Nicholas left the Marist order in the early 1950s and has since died.
Fr John O'Callaghan, Adelaide
After action by Broken Rites, the Adelaide Catholic diocese has made civil settlements with former altar boys of this priest. The incidents occurred in 1969-71 at St Monica's parish, Walkerville, where O'Callaghan ministered from the mid-1960s till about 1981. Previously, O'Callaghan had been at Adelaide's Salisbury parish.
Fr Bill O'Connor, Parramatta diocese, NSW
A woman ("Kerry"), born in the 1940s, has complained that she was sexually assaulted, aged 13, by Father William G. O'Connor (then an assistant priest in the Sydney archdiocese) in the presbytery at Springwood (St Thomas Aquinas parish) in the Blue Mountains in the late 1950s. The Catholic culture prevented the girl from telling her mother about having been sexually abused by a Catholic priest. All this disrupted the girl's development, and Kerry is still suffering the damage today. Subsequently, O'Connor was the Parish Priest in charge of the Seven Hills parish (Our Lady of Lourdes) for thirty years to 1989. Springwood and Seven Hills were originally in the Sydney diocese but by 1989 they became a part of the new Parramatta diocese. William O'Connor rose in the church ranks in the 1970s and was given the title "Very Reverend". Kerry went through the church's Towards Healing process. At first the church officials behaved evasively but eventually they signed a settlement with her.
Br J. A. O’Neill
The Catholic Church's "Towards Healing" office has accepted some complaints about Christian Brother John Anselm O’Neill, who taught at Catholic schools including: St Gabriel’s school for the deaf, Castle Hill, NSW, in the 1950s; St Joseph’s primary school, Rozelle, Sydney, in the 1960s; and St Patrick’s primary school, Launceston, Tasmania, in the 1970s and 1980s.
Br Theodore O’Shannessy
The De La Salle Brothers have apologised to (and signed a settlement with) a victim of Brother Theodore O’Shannessy. This Brother, who was born about 1940 (real name Patrick O’Shannessy ), taught in De La Salle schools at Haberfield, Bankstown, Dubbo and Cootamundra (all in New South Wales) and Scarborough (in Queensland).
Padua College, Kedron, Brisbane
A former pupil of Padua College (a Catholic boys' school at Kedron, Brisbane) has complained that he was sexually abused in the 1960s by a priest from the Franciscan order (the Order of Friars Minor — OFM).
Br Mark Payne, a Marist
Former pupils have complained about sexually abusive behaviour by Marist Brother Mark Donald Payne (born 5 December 1957) who taught at St Augustine’s College in Cairns, Queensland, about 1985.
Fr Leo Perry
Broken Rites is researching this priest in Australia and New Zealand. Originally, from 1948 to 1956, he was a member of the Jesuit religious order in New Zealand, where he taught young boys at high-school level in the Holy Name minor seminary (staffed by Australian Jesuits) at Riccarton, Christchurch. At this seminary, he invasively mauled the genitals of boys in their dormitory, in his private room and during car trips. In 1957 the church authorities covered up this problem by transferring Perry to the Townsville diocese in north Queensland, where he ministered (as a diocesan priest, not a Jesuit) in unsuspecting parishes: Mundingburra parish in the late 1950s; Ayr parish about 1960-61; and Townsville cathedral parish until 1967. At Townsville, his victims included at least one boy from Cootharinga Home for Crippled Children.
Br J.M. Podger, Sydney, 1953
Broken Rites is researching Brother Ronald John Podger (this surname rhymes with "Roger" or "lodger") who taught at Christian Brothers Lewisham in 1952-53, using the religious name "John Maximus" Podger (called after an ancient "Saint" Maximus). Podger later left this religious order. A pupil (“Basil”, who was aged eleven in 1953) is still deeply concerned about Br Podger half a century later. The Christian Brothers have accepted (and settled) a complaint from Basil.
Fr Peter Quirk, Maitland-Newcastle diocese
Broken Rites is researching this priest (born 1 April 1957), who ministered from 1986 to 1991 at: Maitland cathedral; Toronto parish; and Taree parish. He targeted teenage boys. He died on 27 September 1991, aged 34. This Father Peter Quirk is not to be confused with any other priest of the same name in another diocese.
Fr Graham Redfern, Melbourne
The Melbourne Catholic archdiocese's Independent Commission into Sexual Abuse found in November, 1997, that Father Graham Redfern had sexually abused a youth in 1976, after conducting the funeral of the youth's mother. The then archbishop of Melbourne formally apologised in a letter to the complainant in May,1998, for the "wrongs and hurt you have suffered at the hands of Father Redfern". The archdiocese then signed a civil settlement with the complainant. See more HERE.
Br Neil Richards, New South Wales
After action by Broken Rites, the New South Wales province of the Christian Brothers has made a settlement with a former student, who had lodged a complaint about a Brother Richards. The settlement deed identified the Brother as "Desmond Eric Richards", but he was known in the Christian Brothers as Br Neil Richards. He taught in Catholic primary schools in Sydney and country New South Wales until he retired.
Br Bernie Ring, Victoria
Broken Rites is researching Christian Brother Bernard Ring (born 22 May 1934). As a child, he lived at St Vincent's boys' home in South Melbourne (until 1951) and then, like some other orphanage boys, he became a Christian Brother. Brother B.A. Ring worked in schools at Geelong, Ballarat (St Patrick's College), East Melbourne and Fiji, and at St Vincent's boys' home, South Melbourne.
Marist Brother "Roland", Sydney
Brother "Roland" Moran's birth name was John Francis Moran. Broken Rites has received complaints from a male victim (at Marist Brothers Pagewood in the 1960s) and a female victim (her older siblings attended Marcellin College Randwick in the 1970s - and Brother Roland abused her from age 8 onwards when he kept making "home visits" to this family).
Fr Frank Ryan, Perth
Broken Rites is researching Father Francis Tully Ryan, at the Inglewood parish in Perth in the 1950s and 1960s. He "befriended" a young female parishioner who took her own life.
Fr Kevin Ryan, Melbourne
In 2003, following action by Broken Rites, the Melbourne archdiocese’s commissioner on sexual abuse (Mr Peter O’Callaghan, QC) accepted a complaint by "James" (born in 1954) that Father Arthur Kevin Ryan (known as Fr Kevin Ryan) sexually abused him as an 11-year-old pupil at St Matthew’s parish school, Fawkner North, about 1965. Ryan’s other Melbourne parishes included Yarraville, Thornbury and Glenhuntly. Mr O’Callaghan ruled that "James" was also sexually abused by a prominent Catholic layman, Robert Charles Blunden (known as Bert Blunden), who lived at Fr Ryan’s Fawkner North presbytery.
Br Innocent Schofield
The Australian Christian Brothers have accepted a complaint from a man, now elderly, that he was sexually abused by Brother Aloysius Innocent Schofield at St Augustine's boys' orphanage in Geelong, Victoria, in the late 1940s. Schofield adopted the "religious" name Aloysius Innocent when he joined the order (there have been "saints" with those names). Brother A.I. Schofield rose to become the principal of Christian Brothers schools in Queensland: Christian Brothers College in Warwick (1952-57); St Mary's College in Toowoomba (1964-69); and St Edmund's College in Ipswich (1972-77).
Fr Bill Shanahan, Victoria, 1960s
Broken Rites is researching Fr William Shanahan regarding one of his earliest parishes — St Joseph’s parish, Warragul (100km east of Melbourne), in the 1960s, when this priest was aged in his thirties.
Fr Peter Slattery, of the Carmelite order
Broken Rites has received complaints that Father Peter Slattery targeted boys while he was the co-ordinator of "religious" studies at Whitefriars College, a Catholic boys' school in Donvale, Melbourne, in the 1970s. Slattery, who died in 1995, is honoured by the church in an annual "Peter Slattery Memorial Lecture" at the Notre Dame Australia University in Perth.
Fr Manny Spiteri, Sale diocese, Victoria
The Catholic Church has settled a sex-abuse complaint involving a Maltese-born priest, Father Emanuel Joseph Spiteri, who spent 35 years ministering in the Sale diocese in the state of Victoria. See more from Broken Rites here.
Fr Vincent Sproules, western Victoria
The Ballarat Catholic diocese, covering western Victoria, has been forced to apologise for sexual assaults that were committed on a girl ("Zelda", in her early teens) by Father Vincent Sproules inside a small rural church near Colac in the 1950s. Zelda, from a "very Catholic family", was forced to remain silent about this breach of trust. This damaged her view of men and she never married. At the age of 75, shortly before dying, she finally revealed her secret to her siblings, who then demanded an apology from the diocese. Meanwhile, Father Sproules had enjoyed a long career as a Catholic priest, including twenty years in charge of St Mary's parish, Warracknabeal.
Fr Patrick Stephenson, Jesuit
The Jesuit religious order says that some former students have complained (separately) about having been "touched inappropriately" by the Father "Paddy" Stephenson (now deceased) at Xavier College, Melbourne. See the Jesuits' statement HERE.
Br Loyola Sullivan, Sydney
Broken Rtes is researching Marist Brother "Loyola" Sullivan, who worked at St Vincent's Boys Home in Westmead, Sydney, in 1943-1948. He is still remembered by former residents of this institution. This Brother Loyola also taught at Marcellin College, Randwick.
Fr Terence L. Sullivan, Sydney, 1960s
This Father Terry Sullivan (not to be confused with other priests with a similar name) had numerous victims among boys in their early teens. Many have complained to Broken Rites. The church has made civil settlements with a number of these victims who demonstrated that Sullivan (and the church's harbouring of him) had disrupted their adolescent and adult development. Fr Terence Sullivan's parishes included: Kingsgrove (Our Lady of Fatima parish) in the early 1960s; Penrith (St Nicholas's parish) and Asquith (St Patrick's parish) in the mid-1960s and Gosford (St Patrick's) in 1967. Sullivan targeted boys at Catholic schools, including De La Salle College at Kingsgrove, St Leo's College at Wahroonga (this was then was a Christian Brothers boys' school) and St Edward's Christian Brothers school at Gosford. He left the ministry "on leave" about 1968 and never returned.
Fr Joseph Sultana, Queensland
A former altar boy has launched a civil lawsuit against the Catholic Church, alleging years of abuse by a priest, Father Joseph Emmanuel Sultana, in the Australian Catholic diocese of Cairns. See more here.
Br Laurie Sweeney
An order of Catholic priests, the Salesians of Don Bosco, confirmed in 2004 that it has made a civil settlement with two victims of Salesian Brother Laurence Sweeney — a boy and his sister, who have complained about being sexually abused by Sweeney at a Salesian club in Oakleigh, Melbourne in 1975.
Br Mark Thomas
The Christian Brothers have settled a complaint about Brother Brian Thomas. This Brother (born 1938) adopted the religious name “Brother Mark Thomas” when he joined the order. He worked in various Catholic institutions including: at St Augustine’s orphanage in Geelong VIC in 1969; at schools in Box Hill VIC, Albury NSW and Balmain NSW in the 1970s; at Chatswood NSW, Strathfield NSW, Toorak VIC and Canberra in the 1980s; and at Waverley NSW in the 1990s.
Monsignor Maurice Tully, New South Wales
Broken Rites is investigating this priest who had a long career (until 1975) in the Armidale diocese in northern New South Wales. While working in a parish, he also acted as the diocese's vicar-general (chief administrator) and this high status protected him from complaints. See more from Broken Rites here.
Fr John Walshe, Melbourne
The Melbourne Catholic Archdiocese has confirmed that it has paid a $75,000 settlement to a former student (John Roach) who alleged that, when he was 18 in 1982, he was targeted sexually by Father John Thomas Walshe. See more from Broken Rites HERE.
Br Frank Webster
The Christian Brothers Australian administration has accepted complaints from victims who were abused, when they were young boys, by Christian Brother Aloysius Francis Webster (also known as Frank Webster or "Lou" Webster) while he was the superintendent (principal) at St Augustine's orphanage, Geelong, Victoria, from 1954 to 1959. See the Broken Rites story here.
Fr Adrian Wenting
A number of ex-students have complained that Father Adrian Wenting committed offences of indecency against them at the Salesian College boarding school in Brooklyn Park, South Australia, where he was the principal until 1979. Wenting also worked at the Boys Town residential institution in Engadine NSW and at Salesian College Chadstone in Melbourne. See more from Broken Rites HERE.
Westmead Boys' Home, NSW
Broken Rites is investigating complaints from former inmates of St Vincent's Boys' Home, Westmead, in Sydney's west. This orphanage was operated by the Marist Brothers until it closed in 1991. Broken Rites possesses a printed list, compiled by the Marists, of all Brothers who worked at this institution. The Westmead site is now a campus of the University of Western Sydney.
Fr Dennis Whelan, NSW
Broken Rites is researching Father Dennis R. Whelan, who ministered in the Bathurst Catholic diocese in north-western New South Wales, notably St Brigid's parish in Dubbo and St Mary's in Dubbo North. Dennis Whelan's middle name was either Redmond or Raymond.
Fr John Whiting
Broken Rites is researching Father John Thomas Larmer Whiting. Originally a member of the Redemptorist order, he founded a small Australian society of priests and brothers called the "Confraternity of Christ the Priest". He established a small seminary at Scoresby, in Melbourne’s east. A man who inquired about joining the order in 1981 (aged 19) says that, during the interview, Father John Whiting inspected the young man’s genitals. Another young aspirant says that he was required to bathe naked, with Fr Jack Whiting, in a pool. In later years, Whiting's society also provided seminary training in Wagga Wagga in southern New South Wales.
Fr Kevin Wright, southern New South Wales
Broken Rites is researching Father Kevin Wright, who spent many years in the Wagga Wagga diocese (e.g., at the Jerilderie parish, 1970-73, followed by the Junee parish).
Bert Zeelen, sacristan, Adelaide cathedral
Broken Rites is researching Hubertus Zeelen (a Dutch name), who was the full-time sacristan, caretaker and chief altar-server at St Francis Xavier Cathedral, Adelaide, in the 1960s and 1970s. He was in charge of altar-boys. He lived in a dwelling at the cathedral.

Section C:
Court cases ending with no conviction

Sometimes, for various legal reasons, a court case might fail to result in a conviction. For example:

Fr Theo Arrivoli, Sydney
Father Theodore Arrivoli, who ministered in many parishes around the Sydney region during 60 years, was charged in court on 15 January 2015 (when he was aged 92) regarding alleged sexual assaults (including buggery) against two children near Sydney in the 1970s. However, at a later hearing, the case did not proceed any further at this stage because of the elderly priest's health issues. See more from Broken Rites HERE.
Fr Dennis Corrigan
On 9 February 2012 Father Dennis John Corrigan, 68, who worked in the Maitland-Newcastle diocese, north of Sydney, was acquitted in the New South Wales District Court on charges of indecent assault on a boy. See more from Broken Rites here.
Fr Peter Dwyer
In the New South Wales District Court on 9 May 2011, a jury found Father Peter William Dwyer not guilty of alleged sexual offences, between 1977 and 1992, against four students who attended St Stanislaus College, Bathurst NSW (where Fr Dwyer had been a music teacher and later a headmaster).
Christian Brother Steve McLaughlin, Queensland
A Catholic website (CathNews) reported in July 2002 (quoting the Brisbane Courier Mail) that Brother Stephen David McLaughlin, then aged 50 (a former head of the Christian Brothers order in Queensland), had been ordered by a Brisbane magistrate (at a committal hearing in 2002) to stand trial in the District Court on child-sex charges. However, the case did not proceed to a trial. See more HERE.
St Stanislaus College, Bathurst NSW
In a judge-alone trial at Sydney District Court on 4 March 2016, a former Catholic priest (now aged 73) was acquitted on charges of indecently assaulting a male student at St Stanislaus College boys' school in Bathurst, New South Wales, in the 1970s. The defence lawyer has obtained a court order, prohibiting the publication of the ex-priest's name. See more HERE.

Section D:
Lay teachers in church schools,
researched by Broken Rites

The above lists (Sections A to C) on this website all relate to priests or religious brothers, as distinct from lay teachers. Many victims have contacted Broken Rites about offences committed by lay teachers in Catholic schools or school youth camps. The teachers' cases are too numerous to be all listed on this website. Here are just a few examples to demonstrate the range of cases:

Yvo Gulien Cleyman, at Gosford, NSW, 1970s
In the New South Wales District Court at Gosford (New South Wales) on 20 April 2004, Yvo Gulien Cleyman (then aged 59) was sentenced to a maximum of six years' jail over a series of sex offences against two schoolboys in the late 1970s. The case was reported next day in the Central Coast Herald(and the preliminary proceedings had been reported in the Central Coast Express on 26 February 2003). The boys, aged 13 and 14, were attending St Edward's Christian Brothers School in East Gosford (north of Sydney), where Yvo Gulien Cleyman was a lay teacher of languages and social studies in the late 1970s. The court was told that, on school camps, on drives to isolated places and out fishing, he forced anal intercourse on the boys as well as forcing them to give and receive oral sex. Cleyman pleaded guilty to six counts of buggery and two counts of indecent assault on the two victims. When charged in 2003, Yvo Gulien Cleyman's address was given in court as Buccan, Queensland. He was extradited to New South Wales for the court proceedings. After the conviction, theChristian Brothers headquarters in New South Wales began having mediation meetings with victims of Cleyman.
John Coogan, teacher, Geelong, Victoria
John Patrick Coogan, then aged 61, was sentenced in 1994 to five years jail (minimum of three years) after pleading guilty to seventeen charges of indent assault of boys while he was a lay teacher at St Joseph's College (Christian Brothers) in Geelong. Outside the court, one of the victims said the St Joseph's College administration had known that Coogan was a child-molester but it did nothing about him.
Mark Dean, northern Victoria
Mark Christopher Dean, a Catholic lay teacher, pretended to be a priest during role-playing sessions with children while he sexually abused them, the Bendigo Magistrates Court was told in July 1992. Dean, then aged 33, of Rochester and Bendigo, who taught in north Victorian Catholic schools, pleaded guilty to indecently assaulting eight schoolboys in three towns during the 1980s. Dean was sentenced to a six-months suspended jail term. The victims' families told police that Dean had been protected by the church authorities.
John Gahan, lay teacher, NSW
On 30 October 2007 in the New South Wales District Court, John Stephen Gahan was sentenced to 13 months jail (with a non-parole period of six months), on three charges of indecent assault of a boy, aged 11 to 13, while Gahan was a lay teacher at St Mary’s Catholic parish primary school in Scone (in the Maitland-Newcastle Catholic diocese), in the late 1970s. Gahan befriended the boy's family. Gahan admitted that the abuse (masturbating the boy) occurred on a number of occasions during two years — in Gahan's car and on overnight trips. The victim said in his impact statement that, as a child, he did not understand what was happening — "only that here was a man that took an interest in my future and this was a small sacrifice to maintain his friendship". The victim said that the abuse caused problems in his adult life, including in his marriage.
Mato Karapandzk, cathedral caretaker
On 11 March 2008 in the South Australian District Court, a 37-year-old woman gained justice for sexual abuse that she experienced while she was a pupil at Adelaide's St Aloysius Catholic girls' school. At age 12 in the early 1980s, the girl was told to wheel a disabled elderly nun over to the Adelaide cathedral (opposite the school) for church services. There, the girl was befriended by Mato Karapandzk (then over 50), a Croatian-born caretaker at the cathedral. Over the next five years, he sexually abused the girl in and around the cathedral building, "under the noses of the cathedral staff and the school", sometimes giving her $20 after the abuse, the court was told. He continued as the cathedral caretaker until the victim came forward with her complaint in 2004. Karapandzk, aged 77 at sentencing, was given a nine-year jail sentence (with four years behind bars before parole).
Willi Kovac, sports teacher
In Melbourne County Court in December 2005, Kovac (then aged 73) was jailed for a maximum of nine and half years' jail, with a non-parole period of 5½ years, after pleading guilty to indecently assaulting three boys (aged between nine and fourteen) in the 1960s and 1970s. German-born Kovac was an athletics coach at Melbourne's Xavier College and Marcellin College and other Catholic schools and worked as a co-ordinator at summer camps for Catholic school children. Judge Pamela Jenkins said that, since the offences, Kovac's three victims had struggled with life, including drug and alcohol abuse and relationship breakdowns, and had under-achieved in their work-life. These three boys were not Kovac's only victims. He also had victims from other Catholic schools. Some victims have contacted Broken Rites. According to information given in court in 2005, Kovac was also jailed in 1970 for indecent assault. One prominent Catholic school sacked Kovac for his behaviour but it then breached its duty of care by allowing him to work at other Catholic schools, putting more boys in danger.
Paul John Lyons, Canberra
In 2006 and 2007, Daramalan College, a Catholic co-educational school in Canberra (run by the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart), finally began making civil settlements with victims of a former teacher, Paul John Lyons. Lyons taught at Daramalan from 1989 to 2000. He took dozens of students to his home overnight or away on sporting trips. In 2000, police caught up with Lyons who admitted indecently assaulting a 15-year-old schoolboy. Police charged Lyons but, a few days later, he committed suicide. His police interview indicated that Lyons had many other victims, meaning that more charges would have been likely.
John Marsden, solicitor, school sports coach
John Marsden was originally a trainee for the Catholic priesthood but he left the seminary and later became a prominent lawyer and president of the New South Wales Law Society. In a crimes compensation case on 6 July 2001, NSW District Court judge Ken Taylor found that, "on the balance of probabilities", Marsden had sexually abused an eight-year-old schoolboy in the late 1960s when Marsden was a swimming and football coach at a Catholic school, St John's, Campbelltown, in Sydney's south-west. The court was told that, on three occasions, the boy was forced to engage in mutual genital fondling with Marsden and on the third occasion he was forced to perform oral sex on Marsden. The boy then complained to school authorities but was not believed over the respected local solicitor and former trainee priest, the victim told the court. The victim took his allegations against Marsden to Mr Justice Wood's royal commission into corruption in 1996, but Marsden was never charged by police. The victim then began a civil action in the NSW Supreme Court, but said he was "threatened with financial ruin" by the rich and powerful lawyer. On legal advice, he sought victim's compensation instead. Judge Taylor awarded the plaintiff the then maximum amount of $40,000 in victim's compensation, plus $5078 for psychiatrists' fees and $8000 in legal costs. This finding could not be revealed in 2001 because it was subject to a court suppression order. Marsden died in May 2006, aged 64, and the Weekend Australian published the court documents on 3 June 2006.
Former Test cricket umpire Steve Randell
He was jailed in 1999 for sexual offences against young girls while he taught at Marist College in Burnie, Tasmania, in the early 1980s (after the school became co-educational). Randell also taught at St Virgil's College in Hobart. He also allegedly had male victims. See our article about a different offender at Marist College here.
St Mark's College, South Australia
Jenny Christall, who was an education support officer at St Mark's College in Port Pirie (South Australia) in 2001, learned that a male religious education teacher, Sunil Francis Clark, was sexually abusing female students. Mrs Christall alerted the school administration and the Port Pirie Catholic diocese but, she says, these authorities failed to contact police. Ms Christall contacted the police herself but this meant losing her job because of a workplace confidentiality agreement. After this, she says, she was banned from working at more than 100 Catholic schools in South Australia. The male teacher, Sunil Clark, was charged in the South Australian District Court in 2006 with sexual offences against two schoolgirls, including two charges of unlawful sexual intercourse by a teacher. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to four years and nine months in prison, with a non-parole period of three years.
Stephen Stockdale-Hall, Adelaide
In the South Australian Supreme Court in December 2005, Stephen John Stockdale-Hall (aged 56) was sentenced to 10 years' jail (with parole after eight years) after admitting that he sexually abused nine boys, aged between eight and 16 years, between 1977 and 1989, while he was a Catholic schools lay teacher. His crimes started while he was a teacher at Adelaide's Blackfriars Priory School and went on for a decade after he resigned when he continued to take students on camping expeditions. Stockdale-Hall also encouraged some of his Catholic school victims to drink alcohol and take drugs. See our story here.
Darren Tector, former lay teacher
In 1994, Darren John Tector was jailed for sexual offences against boys while he was a teacher at a Catholic primary school (Our Lady of Lourdes) at Seven Hills, near Parramatta, west of Sydney. He was jailed again in 2007 (aged 41) for using the internet and a telephone to procure a child (a 12-year-old boy) for sexual activity. See our story here.

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