AUSTRALIA
Sydney Morning Herald
December 2, 2012
A Catholic brother convicted of child abuse has described how a senior clergyman lured him to molest boys. Rory Callinan and Rick Feneley investigate.
Brother Bernard McGrath was a young trainee in the St John of God order when, as he recalls it, a superior brother approached him.
”Come here Bernard. You know I am gay. Come and give me a kiss,” he alleges the brother said.
Days later, the same superior brother, Rodger Moloney, an Australian, again approached McGrath, calling him into his office at the Marylands School for boys with learning and intellectual disabilities in Christchurch, New Zealand.
There in the office was ”some poor kid”, alleges McGrath, who claimed he was then invited to watch while Moloney – his scholastic master and the Marylands prior – molested the boy. Moloney then asked him to participate. The boy was fondled, not raped.
This would be the first of many horrific encounters with Moloney and children at the school in the 1970s, according to notes in a never-before-revealed account of McGrath’s experiences that were sighted by Fairfax Media.
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