AUSTRALIA
NEWS.com.au
Carly Crawford
Herald Sun
April 08, 2013
THE Catholic Church has admitted that a priest who for 20 years oversaw its insurance scheme, which covers claims for sex abuse by clergy, was himself a serial abuser.
The Melbourne archdiocese says it received and upheld three complaints about Monsignor Penn Jones after his death in 1995.
It comes as the federal royal commission into child abuse has taken legal action to retrieve documents from the church and its insurer to assist with its inquiries.
The complaints against Msgr Jones included that he abused at least three young boys at summer camps in the 1960s, touching them in showers and raping at least one.
Msgr Jones was the school chaplain at Cathedral College in the ’60s, and had regular contact with choirboys when he was based at St Patrick’s Cathedral.
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