Priest Michael Aulsebrook found guilty of raping boy at Salesian College Rupertswood

AUSTRALIA
The Age

April 27, 2016

Adam Cooper

A Catholic priest found guilty of raping a student at a notorious boarding school outside Melbourne has also admitted sexually assaulting two other children, it can now be reported.

Michael Aulsebrook, 60, was on Wednesday found guilty by a County Court jury of raping an 11-year-old boy at Salesian College Rupertswood, in Sunbury, in 1988, when the priest was the boarding co-ordinator at the school.

Aulsebrook pleaded not guilty to one charge of rape. The jury had begun their deliberations on Tuesday morning.

Aulsebrook is one of a number of priests who taught at Salesian College Rupertswood who have been convicted of sexually assaulting children at the school.

It is is understood that Aulsebrook is no longer practising as a priest. He has previously served time in jail for sexually assaulting a 12-year-old boy in 1983.

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