Jail for Vic ex-priest over rape in office

By Caitlin Guilfoyle
7 News
June 21, 2016

https://au.news.yahoo.com/vic/a/31885081/ex-priest-jailed-for-vic-drugging-and-rape/#page1

A predatory ex-Catholic priest has been jailed for drugging and raping a student after inviting the boy to play computer games in his office.

Michael Scott Aulsebrook, 60, was the boarders' co-ordinator at Salesian College Rupertswood when he attacked the boy in the 1980s.

He lured the boy to play on his computer after lights-out and gave his victim a soft drink spiked with a sedative.

After raping him, Aulsebrook said: "Get out of my sight. You disgust me".

He was found guilty of the rape, but also pleaded guilty to three counts of indecent assault against two other victims, one male and one female.

Those victims were sexually assaulted in their beds while Aulsebrook stayed with their families.

Aulsebrook was jailed for eight years and six months, with a minimum five years and nine months, in the Victorian County Court on Tuesday.

Judge Geoffrey Chettle said there was no evidence Aulsebrook, of Traralgon, had shown remorse for the rape.

He labelled it predatory and calculated, and a gross breach of trust by an adult who was supposed to protect the boy.

"He was a vulnerable 12-year-old boy in your care," Judge Chettle said.

The victim was also raped, in a similar manner, by de-frocked predator David Erwin Rapson, the court has previously heard.

The boarding school's reputation has been blackened by some of Victoria's most notorious pedophile priests, including Rapson, Frank Klep and Julian Fox.

Rapson sexually abused six boys in the 1970s and 1980s, one at Salesian College Rupertswood.

Like Aulsebrook, he lured them to his office - with video games, cigarettes and alcohol.

In 2014, a judge broke down while describing the campaign of abuse Klep exacted against vulnerable students at the school.

Klep pleaded guilty to 15 charges committed between 1974 and 1983.

Julian Benedict Fox sexually assaulted two 14-year-old schoolboys, one of whom was at Salesian.

The maximum penalty for rape at the time of Aulsebrook's offending was 10 years.

The indecent assaults he admitted took place between 1987 and 1995.