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A Melbourne parish priest had showers with a boy he was obsessed with, an inquiry has heard.
Former priest Philip O’Donnell says the boy told him Gladstone Park parish priest Father Wilfred “Bill” Baker taught him how to drive with the boy sitting on his lap and showered with him.
“I just thought it was utterly inappropriate for an adult male, particularly a parish priest, to be showering with a young lad,” Mr O’Donnell told the child abuse royal commission on Tuesday.
Then archbishop Frank Little did not believe the allegation when the boy’s parents complained in 1978, Mr O’Donnell said.
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