According to Broken Rites research, the Melbourne Catholic archdiocese has been forced to admit that Father Anthony (Tony) Bongiorno committed
sexual crimes against children during his 30 years working in Melbourne
parishes. Anthony Bongiorno began training for the priesthood about
1960, aged 25, in the same trainee group as George Pell and Denis Hart,
both of whom eventually became archbishops of Melbourne. In 1994, Pell
(then an auxiliary bishop in Melbourne) officiated at a requiem mass for
Bongiorno's brother Salvatore ("Sam").
Anthony Bongiorno's child-sex crimes were covered up until some were exposed in the mid-1990s. The total number of Father Bongiorno's victims is unknown. For example, in 1980, a woman (named Maria James) learned that her son (aged 11) was a Bongiorno victim but this woman was murdered before she could expose Bongiorno about her son's abuse.
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Anthony Bongiorno's child-sex crimes were covered up until some were exposed in the mid-1990s. The total number of Father Bongiorno's victims is unknown. For example, in 1980, a woman (named Maria James) learned that her son (aged 11) was a Bongiorno victim but this woman was murdered before she could expose Bongiorno about her son's abuse.
http://www.brokenrites.org.au/drupal/node/81
