AUSTRALIA
Canberra Times
Katie Burgess
An ex-priest who was found to have inappropriately touched a child has been removed from a home for retired clergy next to two primary schools.
The Catholic Archdiocese of Canberra-Goulburn has also moved two other priests, who had been removed from the ministry for “other reasons”, from Lanigan House due to community concerns.
Catholic Archbishop Christopher Prowse housed former Tumut priest Father Brian Hassett at Lanigan House, next to Sts Peter and Paul Primary School and Malkara School in Garran, for two years after he had been stood down over two incidents involving children in Tumut.
While NSW police did not press charges, the claims were substantiated in an archdiocese investigation overseen by the NSW Ombudsman.
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