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♦ What Is Sex Abuse
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Gerald Ridsdale Ballarat Diocese Court Case
Ridsdale Abuse victim receives multi-million-dollar payout from Catholic Church
September 27, 2019
The Catholic Church is expected to pay out as much as $3 million in a landmark legal settlement with a man who was raped in the confessional when he was a nine-year-old boy by notorious paedophile priest Gerald Ridsdale.
♦ Story here...
♦ Spike in claims against Church prompts calls for Andrews to intervene - Tha Age article
♦ ‘Deeply sorry’: Sydney Grammar School prints newspaper apology to boy for teacher’s sexual abuse
The Age - Paedophile Ring Investigation
Revealed: How paedophile priests in Victoria worked together to share victims
A Catholic priest left a 14-year-old boy in a seminary common room with several other boys before another priest came and "selected" him for abuse, says an explosive new statement of claim.
♦ The Age - Revealed: How paedophile priests in Victoria worked together to share victims
Second article.
Corpus Christi was where sexually repressed men could “act out” with each other, living double lives, then transfer their attentions to the most innocent in their flocks.
♦ How a Melbourne seminary became the breeding ground for paedophile rings
Third article:
What is interesting about this the third article in the Age investigation is the Jesuit connection. when the Jesuits first came to Melbourne they set up St Pats behind the cathedral and a seminary. When Corpus Christi seminary was set up in Werribee (where the Zoo is now )the Jesuits ran it and continued in a teaching and administrative role when it moved to Glen Waverley.
Additionally Dr Eric Seal was an old Xaverian, head of psychiatry at St Vincent’s and intimately involved with victims and perpetrators and one might suggest keeping the whole matter under wraps .
So the Jesuits hands are all over this but strangely not mentioned.
(from Xavier Abuse Survivors Network)
♦ 'Seduction' of children did little harm, said Catholic gatekeeper Ronald Conway.
Fourth Article.
"..the Ballarat diocese and Christian Brothers were doing more:
they were also exporting known paedophiles to the US under the guise of “treatment”.
And there, according to law suits only recently lodged in Connecticut, dozens more victims are seeking their own redress over the predations of Victoria’s Catholic clerics..."
♦ Ground zero: How the Ballarat diocese exported paedophiles to the world
Fifth article:
♦ How a Melbourne seminary became the breeding ground for paedophile rings
Corpus Christi was where sexually repressed men could “act out” with each other, living double lives, then transfer their attentions to the most innocent in their flocks.