AUSTRALIA
Sydney Morning Herald
October 6, 2014
Rory Callinan
Investigative journalist
When David McNamara first complained to the Catholic Church in the 1990s that he had been sexually abused in a church-run home, he believed his abuser would face justice.
And as the years passed and he received a settlement for the abuse at the Kendall Grange home for intellectually disabled boys in NSW, he thought that at the very least his alleged attacker would have left the church and been kept away from children.
But, in August, the 60-year-old realised that the former brother, who had allegedly repeatedly molested him when he was 12, was still working as a Catholic priest, now in Papua New Guinea, and potentially has contact with children.
“I just couldn’t believe it,” Mr McNamara, a former theatre-lighting director, told the Herald. “It goes to show how poorly the church has behaved. The church hasn’t acted on my disclosure. It looks like a cover-up. It disgusts me.”
Mr McNamara is the second person to publicly allege abuse by former St John of God brother and now Catholic priest Father Roger “Gabriel” Mount, and has called for the church to take action.
The other alleged victim is a Victorian man Steve Danas,who alleged abuse by the then Brother Mount at a St John of God-run home in Victoria in the 1960s. Both McNamara and Mr Danas received settlements from the church.
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