Priest defended despite earlier abuse

By Dan Box
Australian
March 17, 2014

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/in-depth/priest-defended-despite-earlier-abuse/story-fngburq5-1226856343444#

The Catholic Church spent years disputing the account of an altar boy who claimed to have been sexually abused by a Sydney priest, despite having first been told almost two decades earlier that the priest had abused another child.

The case, currently being investigated by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, sparked widespread controversy after the victim, John Ellis, lost his bid to sue the church in 2007.