![]() See more from Broken Rites HERE.Īfter action by Broken Rites, Father Wilfred James Baker (also known as Father Bill Baker or Fr Billy Baker), Melbourne archdiocese, was sentenced in 1999 to 4 years jail (eligible for parole after 2 years) for offences against boys. Some of his former pupils in Australia have obtained justice by forcing the Salesians to pay them a civil settlement. In 2011, the Victoria Police sex-crime squad was gathering evidence about his Victorian crimes but. by then, Ayers was elderly and was retired in Samoa, making it too difficult for police to bring him to court in Australia. This priest was a danger to schoolboys during his long career in the Catholic religious order of Salesian Fathers. In 1975, he left parish ministry, "on leave".įather Michael Scott Aulsebrook (a member of the Catholic religious order Salesians of Don Bosco) was jailed in 2011 and again in 2016 for child-sex crimes committed in the 1980s, including at Salesian College " Rupertswood" (a boarding school) in Sunbury, Victoria. In the early 1960s (after working as a priest at the Narrogin parish), Dr Adderley oversaw Catholic education in the Bunbury diocese but in 1965, following complaints about sexual abuse, he was relegated, out-of-sight, to parishes at Mannup and Manjimup. He served as a priest in the Bunbury diocese from 1959 to 1974. According to Broken Rites research, Bertram Adderley had been a lay teacher at the Christian Brothers' Aquinas College in Perth in the 1950s before entering the priesthood. Some of Adderley's victim are forcing the Bunbury diocese to pay them financial compensation. As Adderley is deceased now, the police cannot charge him. The Bunbury Catholic diocese in Western Australia harboured Reverend Dr Bertram Richard Adderley, Ph.D., B.A, while he was committing sexual crimes against boys in the 1960s and '70s. This list is confined to cases in which victims were in contact with Broken Rites. Here are some examples of criminal cases, researched by Broken Rites Australia (between 19), involving Catholic priests and religious brothers. Only a few victims have consulted the police and some victims (often unwisely) merely tip-off the church's internal Professional Standards Office (also called "Towards Healing"), whose main purpose is to protect the church and the perpetrator. Many church-abuse victims remain silent for years or forever. If a particular offender is not listed on this webpage, this does not mean that this person is not an offender. ![]() D: Lay teachers in church schools - some examples. ![]() C: Court cases with no conviction - some examples.The complete database of Broken Rites information is NOT available on the internet. We last updated this Black Collar Crime page in December 2015. This page is confined to cases which have been researched by Broken Rites. This page gives a few examples (not a complete list) of Broken Rites cases involving Catholic clergy and religious Brothers in Australia. Compiled by Broken Rites Australia (this page was last updated in December 2015) ![]()
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