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
B. Purcell s.j. at Burke Hall

Alleged Sex Abuser

Brian Purcell s.j.


Brian Purcell s.j. at Burke Hall in the late 1950's, has been reported to us.
Sexual assault on two occasions at Burke hall. Unsure of his first name as yet,most likely Brian.

ex-students say:
“a bloke called Purcell ( Spelling)– a scholastic  in about 1956 at Burke Hall trying to play with my genitals on 3 -4 ??? occasions.
The assault  took place in the dungeon at Burke Hall after Football training on at least several occasions ( I was about 9 or 10)”


"the Jesuits had discovered his sexual proclivities with the boys and had run him out of Burke Hall literally ….
All of them throwing him out into the street - Studley Park Rd … and telling him not to come back."

At Burke hall Purcell had a boy on his lap at the front of the class and Purcell had his hand down inside the boy's shorts.
This boy reported it to his father, who was an ex-student,
a doctor and very influential in the school and the Melbourne Archdiocese,
His father reported it to the Burke Hall Principal Geoff Schneider SJ
This is probably how Purcell got run out of Burke Hall and disappeared.

2020 - There is an allegation that Geoff Schneider SJ sexually assaulted a student at St. Aloysius College, North sydney in the 1970's.