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3 December 2015

School warned about predator priest

Senior Catholic education officials warned a Melbourne principal that children were not safe to be left alone with the school's new priest, the child abuse royal commission has heard.
But when former St James Primary School principal Patricia Taylor took her concerns about incoming priest Wilfred "Billy" Baker to her regional bishop Peter Connors, she claimed he told her "once a paedophile always a paedophile". She said she did not hear from the bishop again and that Baker was appointed to the parish a short time later.

http://www.smh.com.au/national/sex-abuse-commission-school-warned-about-predator-priest-20151130-glbc2i.html