SYDNEY (AUSTRALIA)
9 News / A Current Affair
July 24, 2018
A retired Catholic priest convicted of indecently assaulting three boys is still being financially supported by the Church, which has even provided him with a new car.
Robert Francis Flaherty was five years ago convicted of the assaults, which took place in the ’70s and ’80s.
Speaking with remarkable candidness to A Current Affair, Flaherty openly made admissions about two of the attacks.
“Back in 1972 I was accused of touching a teenager. He consented to it, he was about 14 or 15,” he said.
That victim was an altar boy at Our Lady of the Rosary Church at St Mary’s.
“There may have been mutual touching, nothing else,” Flaherty said.
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