AUSTRALIA
The Advertiser
April 3, 2016
A PRIEST who worked at schools linked to one of the state’s most notorious paedophile rings has been charged with sex offences, decades after allegations first surfaced.
Salesian priest Father Frank De Dood has been charged with a string of offences, including the rape and indecent assault of young boys, between 1978 and 1983.
Police claim five people fell victim to offences committed at Chadstone and Sunbury, where Fr Dood worked at the order’s Salesian College, Rupertswood. So far, at least five former Rupertswood staff, including principals, have been jailed for child sex crimes.
The Salesians have admitted paying out thousands of dollars to victims.
In 2008, the Salesians made a confidential payment to a former Rupertswood student who complained of being abused in the 1980s. The ex-student claimed that “as a result of such assaults, he has sustained loss, damage and injuries that may require specialist counselling and therapy”.
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