Police 'Took No Action' over Priest's Abuse

By Dan Box
The Australian
July 11, 2012

www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/police-took-no-action-over-priests-abuse/story-e6frg6nf-1226423863259

NSW police were told that a Catholic priest now at the centre of a child sex abuse scandal was abusing boys almost 30 years ago, but took no action against him.

In 1983, the father of an 11-year-old altar boy told officers in the town of Moree that his son had been touched inappropriately by the priest, known as Father F for legal reasons.

The boy's father, who asked not to be named, said he raised the allegation with the late Monsignor Frank Ryan, a church official in the diocese of Armidale on three occasions, but nothing was done. "So I spoke to the police and they said they were aware of (Father F's) activities and something would come out of it," the father said.

"But nothing happened."

Father F subsequently moved to Sydney, where he continued working as a priest and allegedly abused another boy, who later committed suicide.