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trotsky

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Mon Sep 12, 2016, 11:46 AM Sep 2016

Catholic Church aware of priest's offences against children: Royal Commission

Because of course it was. Everyone knows how these incidents go.

http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/catholic-church-aware-of-priests-offences-against-children-royal-commission-20160912-gregyt.html

Senior members of the Catholic Church were first informed a priest had molested young boys in 1984 but he continued to move around parishes in NSW for almost a decade before being suspended, a royal commission has heard.

The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse is holding a public hearing into former priest John Joseph Farrell who was jailed for a minimum term of 18 years in May after being found guilty of a string of sexual offences against children.

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Ms Furness told the commission Farrell was treated by psychologist Gary Boyle, declaring himself "a new man" after one session. Dr Boyle found that, "Farrell did not present as a man with true paedophilia", the commission heard.

Farrell was moved to Tamworth and then to Merrylands and Kenthurst in Sydney.


A miracle! Cured after just one therapy session!
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Catholic Church aware of priest's offences against children: Royal Commission (Original Post) trotsky Sep 2016 OP
thats a good therapist Lordquinton Sep 2016 #1
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