UNITED STATES/AUSTRALIA
The Dallas Morning News
By Reese Dunklin
rdunklin@dallasnews.com
5:02 pm on April 24, 2013
Another priest from our landmark 2004-2005 series on the Catholic Church’s international transfers of sex abusers has been arrested.
Australian authorities charged the Rev. Julian Fox, pictured, after he returned from his religious order’s headquarters in Rome. He faces 10 counts of sexually and physically abusing boys at a Melbourne-area boarding school, according to press reports.
In our series, I reported that Fox was moved to Fiji after an abuse complaint in the late 1990s was made to his order, the Salesians of Don Bosco. The Salesians also paid his accuser a settlement, officials acknowledged to me.
When I talked to Fox by phone in 2004, he said a church review had exonerated him. He declined to further discuss the allegations.
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