Some of the Catholic church’s worst paedophile priests shared victims, passed on details of vulnerable children considered easy targets and worked together to conceal their crimes as part of informal networks of sexual abuse hidden in Australian seminaries, schools and parishes.
In a statement of claim which lawyers plan to file in court this week, the victim, who cannot be named for legal reasons, alleges Vears took him to the seminary in October 1976 and left him to wait in a communal living room with four or five other boys. A second priest, Ryan, then allegedly picked the boy from the group, took him back to a bedroom and sexually assaulted him.
Later that evening, Pidoto raped the boy in the seminary dining hall - a fact accepted by a jury in 2007.Police files reveal another victim was also exploited at Glen Waverley seminary in the early '70s by Father Wilfred “Bill” Baker, who made the boy remove his shirt and pants in front of Baker and other trainee priests, “to show how big his muscles were.” After the boy’s father died, Baker, Pidoto and other seminary priests would visit his home regularly.
“A recurring theme is the issue of priests preying on younger priests-in-training, and the normalisation of that unethical but quite secretive relationship. This sets the grounds for subsequent sexual abuse, particularly against teenagers.” In evidence that networking between abusers could also cross borders, Pickering took the victim to Adelaide to dine with another group of paedophiles and their chosen “boys”.
Hì This religious hierarchy is straight from Babylon, just like the book of Revelation says.
The world is finally healing. Away with the church
Thank you for this article it’s important to keep this story front and centre. The abuse perpetrated by these creatures is appalling the courage of the survivors is amazing. I would like to know where police and politicians were when this happened.
They seem to have forgotten the words of the Master they have betrayed about the ominous punishments of those who make the little ones go astray.
Abbott, Bolt any defensive arguments from you?
That's called homosexual ephebophilia- male priests abusing adolescent boys. It's directly related to homosexuality and quite different from pedophilia
Yep...nothing new here. Expose ALL of these predators.
Systematic, organised child abuse, known about, harboured and protected by the church and police for decades. The church has lost any grounds it might have had to preach to anyone about anything. An abomination.
Me ..... My kids school “here’s some information about joining the parish if you’re interested “
How can anybody trust a priest? Old men pretending to be celibate are deluding themselves and everyone around them. And yet these very same people want to lecture the rest of us on same sex marriage and abortion.
The Church should be dismantled and all its property sold to compensate its victims.
🤔 terminating a foetus is bad but it’s ok to ruin the lives of human beings.
How dare they call themselves servants of God, whether you are religious or not this is the worst crime imaginable. Name them, shame them, send them to jail for a long time. This is 'killing' a child without actual murder, vile.
I wonder if Joyce and Abbott will get on a soapbox about this.
Sounds about right for the church, I mean, didn’t the make believe Jesus feed 100 people with just bread and fish? Perhaps that was code for something.
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