AUSTRALIA
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A bishop who later became Perth’s Catholic archbishop knew a priest had sexually abused boys but gave him “a fresh start” in his diocese, where the offending continued, documents before a royal commission reveal.
Father William Kevin Glover received two warnings under canon law for “immoral and criminal sexual behaviour with boys and adolescents” while in the Marist Fathers – Society of Mary before being sent to Western Australia’s Bunbury diocese in 1960.
Fr Glover was removed from a Victorian parish and given his first warning in June 1958 over the systematic sexual abuse of adolescent boys, tendered documents released by the child abuse royal commission reveal.
“In September of that year a Marist priest working in the parish expressed the view that Glover had been involved with as many as 30 boys over a three-year period,” a 1994 Marist Fathers incident report to its insurer stated.
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