The former head of the Catholic Church’s military diocese has been wrongly accused of being a child sex abuser while two other clergymen may have been responsible, a Perth court has heard.
This is just the opening statement by the priest’s lawyer, isn’t it? It’s not that the court has ruled ‘mistaken identity’, it’s that his lawyers are defending him.
A former student at a Catholic college in Western Australia has told a Perth court he never spoke to anyone after he was sexually abused 45 years ago because he was “too embarrassed”.
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