AUSTRALIA
The Australian
Dan Box
From:The Australian
July 05, 2012
THE Catholic Church will launch an independent investigation into an alleged pedophile priest, as NSW police say they are reviewing whether three senior clergy failed to report his admission that he sexually abused altar boys in his care.
Evidence of the admission is contained in a letter written by Wayne Peters, the vicar general of Armidale in northern NSW, and featured in the ABC’s Four Corners program this week.
The letter, dated September 1992, alleges the former priest, known as Father F for legal reasons, admitted to groping two boys and “to quote, ‘sucked off their dicks’ . . . on about a monthly basis over a period of 12 months”.
The letter is supported by evidence given in court by Father F in 2004, in which he said he had told the three that he had engaged in oral sex with young boys.
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