AUSTRALIA
The Australian
Caroline Overington
From:The Australian
August 04, 2012
A CATHOLIC priest has provided NSW Police with information about at least one Catholic school teacher that he believes to be guilty of sex crimes against Catholic schoolboys in Sydney’s west in the 1990s.
Father Kevin Lee, who caused a storm in May when he revealed that despite having been a Catholic priest for 20 years he was secretly married, told The Weekend Australian that a victim of the teacher’s crimes had come to him with information and he had “taken it to police this time because I’m tired of keeping secrets for the Catholic Church”.
“In the past, I’ve taken information about priests to the church and they’ve ignored it, so this time, with the teacher, I’ve gone to police and I’m co-operating with police.”
The church vehemently denies the allegation that it has engaged in a cover-up of any sex crimes by priests. The Bishop of Parramatta, Anthony Fisher, said in a statement: “When in the past Kevin raised with me concerns about particular priests these were thoroughly investigated.
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