Jesuit and Catholic Church - Clerical and Institutional Abuse Forum (Australia)

WARNING: Child Sex Abuse Content.

Jesuit Offenders Intro.
pj-stephenson-head2   P.J. Stephenson s.j.
Peter_Beer_sj_1969_02     Peter Beer s.j.
Noel_Bradford_1969_head2   Noel Bradford s.j.
willi_kovac_head   Willi Kovac
John_Byrne_head   John Byrne s.j.
Joseph_Craig_head   Joseph Craig s.j.
Richard_Galbraith_head   Richard Galbraith s.j.
Paul Schulze s.j.
Brenton Lewis s.j.
W_Marum W. "Bill" Marum
Eldon_Hogan_head_40px Eldon Hogan
T_Carter_head   Tim. Carter s.j.
Philip_Wallbridge_1976_04_head Philip. Wallbridge s.j.
G_M_larkin_sj_1975_headmin   G. (Mac) Larkin s.j.
Richard (Donal) Lane s.j.
H_Sneddon_head   Henry Sneddon s.j.
Brian Purcell s.j.
Stanislaus_Hogan_head2   Stan Hogan s.j.
Larry Kean
JR_Boylen_head3   J.R. Boylan s.j.
Michael O’Mahoney s.j.
Victor_Higgs_head2   Victor Higgs s.j.
Peter_Quin_head   Peter Quin s.j.
Celso_Romanin_head   Celso Romanin s.j.
Brian_OReilly_min Brian O'Reilly
Glen_Walls_headmin Glen Walls
Boarders Master A
Theo_Overberg_head2   Theo Overberg s.j.
Peter_Kelly_LL._B._1938_min   Peter Kelly s.j.
James McInerny s.j.
David Rankin s.j.
Patrick_O_Sullivan_head   Patrick O'Sullivan s.j.
Laurence_Leonard_SJ_1968_StPats Lawrence Leonard s.j.
Paul_McMahon   Paul McMahon
Leo_Flynn_40px   Leo Flynn SJ
Stephen_Hamra_60px   Stephen Hamra
Philip_Astley_headstone2   Philip Astley SJ
  Colin Fearon
  Kevin Carroll s.j.
Peter_Bohrsmann_head   Peter Bohrsmann
Bill_James_1969_headmin   W. "Bill" James

PERSONS OF INTEREST
Walter_Logue_head   Walter Logue SJ
  Malcolm Joseph
Paul McMahon

Alleged Sex Abuser

Paul McMahon


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Richard_Leonard_SJ_and_Paul_McMahon
Richard Leonard s.j. (Xavier College Scholastic 1991)
with Paul McMahon

1988 Mr. P. McMahon s.j. Xavier College.
1987 Education
University of Melbourne

Dec 2001 – Jun 20108 years 7 months
Managing Editor Paulist Press

Jul 2010 – Jun 20133 years
Director Of Development
Jesuit Restorative Justice Initiative
Culver City, California

Sep 2013 – Feb 20195 years 6 months
Acquisitions Editor Paulist Press

Feb 2019 – Present10 months
Editor At Large at Orbis Books
Maryknoll, New York




A former Xavier College student says:
McMahon abused several members of the boarding house.
McMahon made a sexual pass at me as well.
His behaviour involved grooming the boys with massage and supplying alcohol and it progressed to sex play and fellatio.

Another former student says:
McMahon propositioned me in 1988. I was a boarder in Year 11. McMahon was sniffing around the junior boarders, so I warned a few to avoid him.
He was majorly gay - quite effeminate with lustrous long blonde hair which clearly received a lot of attention. One day a year 10 boarder told me McMahon wanted to see me. I ignored it.
The same year 10 boarder came back a few days later and said McMahon absolutely demanded to see me. I have no idea why McMahon couldn't ask me himself. Apparently he wanted to investigate claims that I was performing Satanic rites in the attic above the study hall. It used to be a shower block for boarders.
Needless to say I was not performing Satanic rites, I just liked exploring all of the school buildings. So one evening I went over to the Jesuit accommodation block. It was very quiet.

I found McMahon in a large study. He said he wanted to talk to me about Satanic rites. I said the claims were utter bullshit, and it was odd that an adult would even begin to take them seriously.
He tilted his head and asked me in a very soft, seductive voice for me to come close to him. I was standing in the doorway at the time. I paused and thought, what's going on here?

Then McMahon came out from behind a desk and gestured for me to stand next to him. It was a proposition, pure and simple. You know when someone is hitting on you, and McMahon was hitting on me. I just said 'No thanks', didn't wait for a reply and left. He never bothered me again. He was frequently pestering other boarders though. I don't think he had any official role in the boarding house at all. I suspect that he heard rumours of me getting up to no good in the attic and he might have thought, ah ha, he's sneaking up there to engage in sexual activity. Just a guess.

Paul McMahon linkedin profile

Paul McMahon on video.
Prop 34: Hope for Life Again - October 26, 2012 5:21 pm
During this Respect for Life Month (October), Paul McMahon of the Jesuit Restorative Justice Initiative (JRJI) offers his comments regarding abolishing the death penalty and California’s Proposition 34.
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