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28 November 2015

Archbishop failed to act on serious concerns about priest, inquiry told

A former Melbourne archbishop failed to act on complaints about a predator priest who carried a gun to school and made students kneel between his legs during confession, the child sex abuse inquiry has heard.
Monsignor Thomas Doyle, former head of the Catholic Education Office, testified on Thursday that Archbishop Frank Little did nothing about complaints concerning Doveton Parish priest Peter Searson, despite receiving written warnings about his increasingly erratic behaviour.

http://www.smh.com.au/national/sex-abuse-commission-archbishop-failed-to-act-on-serious-concerns-about-priest-inquiry-told-20151126-gl8hfs.html