Court Hears Priest Lured Boys with Computer Games

By Sarah Farnsworth
7 News
November 15, 2012

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A Melbourne Court has heard a former Catholic priest accused of abuse enticed a 12 year old boy into his room at the Salesian College Rupertswood in Sunbury with the promise of computer games.

Former teacher and vice principal, David Rapson, 59, is charged with abusing seven boys between the 1970s and 1990s.

At a committal hearing, one alleged victim told the Melbourne Magistrates Court, Rapson invited him to play the computer game Pac-Man in his office.

"I felt like I was the golden child and special because he asked me to play his computer," he told police in a statement.

"He gave me a cold glass of lemonade. I was very thirsty and I drank it all straight down."

"After drinking the lemonade I felt a little bit dizzy and then I must have passed out or fallen asleep."

The alleged victim told the court he woke up to find Rapson raping him.

"I tried to move but I couldn't because he was on top of me and he was a big man."

He said the priest yelled at him as he ran away "in a voice that sounded like the devil."

The court heard the boy reported the alleged abuse to his mother, who did not believe him and made him return to school.

A month later, the alleged victim said he was invited to another priest's room in the same way, were he was abused again.

"It was like Father Rapson had told [the priest] what he had done to me and he thought he could do the same," he told police.

He said the other man had long hair and a moustache and "looked a little bit like Jesus."

The committal hearing continues.