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	Nz Paedophile Monk Released, Plans to Move to Australia in 2011 NEWS.com.au April 10, 2010 http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/world/nz-pedophile-monk-will-move-to-australia-next-year/story-e6frfkui-1225851488101 TWO monks jailed for New Zealand's most notorious Catholic sex abuse scandal have been released on parole, and one will move to Australia next year. Rodger William Moloney was head of Christchurch's Marylands School for boys with learning difficulties, where more than 100 victims were systematically abused in the 1970s. After the case was made public in 2002, about $NZ5 million ($3.82 million) was given in compensation, 14 brothers at the school were investigated and two were convicted. In 2008 Moloney was found guilty of seven charges of sex abuse against boys and jailed. He was released on parole in September 2009, barely a year in to his 33-month sentence but local media were only made aware of his release on Wednesday. He has been brought back in to the fold of his Catholic Order and will be "deported" to Australia when his parole expires in April 2011, the New Zealand Herald reported. The Order of St John of God will provide supervision and a home for him, said the Order's spokesman, Simon Feely. In making its decision to release Moloney, the Parole Board told the New Zealand Herald that although he continued to deny the offending, the 74-year-old was unlikely to reoffend because he would not be put in the same circumstances again. The chairman of the Marist Brothers' professional standards committee, Richard Dunleavy, described the religious Order as "like a family". "Like an ordinary family we stick by people through thick and thin," he said. Mr Dunleavy said offering supervised care away from children was the most responsible solution. But a member of the St John of God's professional standards committee, Australian psychologist Michelle Mulvihill, told the New Zealand Herald the decision was "another form of cover up". "Are they going to boot him out? No. They're going to protect him, smuggle him out to Australia and hide him inside the order," she said. Ms Mulvihill said she had interviewed more than 120 complainants in New Zealand since 2002, and there were others who were too scared to come forward. She suggested St John of God should make a public apology in New Zealand. The other monk convicted, Bernard Kevin McGrath, was found guilty of 22 charges against nine victims aged seven to 15 and, in 2006, was sentenced to five years in jail. He was released on parole in February 2008, less than two years in to his five-year term. According to reports, he is living in Christchurch and his ties with the order have been cut.
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