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17 April 2016

Inaction despite alarm over Vic priest

A senior Catholic sister alarmed that a priest had boys in his bedroom told a Melbourne archbishop about rumours he was sexually abusing boys. Nothing was done.
Boys would climb through a window to get to the bedroom of Gardenvale parish priest Fr Ronald Pickering, the Star of the Sea College superior told the Presentation Sisters Order of Victoria's congregation leader Sr Marie Therese Harold in 1978.

http://www.9news.com.au/national/2016/04/14/13/50/inaction-despite-alarm-over-vic-priest