AUSTRALIA
9 News
AAP
It is inconceivable that church leaders would not ask why a priest was being moved from parish to parish, an abuse victims’ advocate says.
Anthony Foster, whose daughters were raped by a Melbourne priest, says more needs to come out about the widespread abuse in the Ballarat diocese.
The child sex abuse royal commission’s investigation has uncovered documents from meetings where it was decided to move Australia’s worst pedophile priest, Gerald Francis Ridsdale, between parishes.
“I find it inconceivable that somebody sitting in a meeting like that would not ask why. We want to know why,” Mr Foster told AAP in Ballarat.
He said a few lines in meeting minutes was an awfully long way from hearing the real story about the behind-the-scenes discussions.
“We need some of the clergy who are still around that were in on those discussions at the time to come clean for our sake, for their sake, for the sake of the victims.”
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