Former Salesian priest Michael Aulsebrook jailed for rape, sex assaults

AUSTRALIA
The Age

June 21, 201

Adam Cooper
Court reporter for The Age

A Catholic priest who raped a student at a notorious boarding school and then told the boy he disgusted him has been jailed for 8½ years.

Michael Aulsebrook, 60, on Tuesday became the latest of a string of priests who taught at Salesian College Rupertswood in Sunbury to be jailed for sexually abusing children, after he was found guilty in April of raping the boy in 1988.

The victim, who was a Year 7 student, was also raped by another priest at the school, David Rapson, in a separate incident that same year.

Aulsebrook is no longer a priest but was the boarding co-ordinator in 1988 and lured the boy to his office one night with the offer of playing computer games.

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