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By Adam Cooper Aug. 16, 2013
An alleged victim of sexual abuse by a Catholic priest was told not to return to a boarding school when his father confronted management, a jury has been told.
The opening day of the trial for David Edwin Rapson heard the boy was 16 or 17 when he was allegedly grabbed on the testicles by the priest in his office at Salesian College Rupertswood one day in 1988.
Prosecutor David Cordy said the boy told Mr Rapson to “f… off” and punched him in the head and went home to report the alleged incident to his parents, who then contacted the Sunbury school.
But the boy’s father was told that the teenager’s behaviour was “inflammatory” and that it would be in the school’s “best interests” for him not to return, the County Court heard.
“So that was the end of that,” Mr Cordy told the jury in his opening address on Friday.
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