Australia’s Denis McAlinden: Sex-Abuse Priest Took Secrets to Grave
The 2600-page report by Ireland’s Commission to Inquire Into Child Abuse … found that an unknown number of perpetrators moved to Australia. One was Father McAlinden, who moved to Australia in 1949 and died in 2005, two years before sexual abuse allegations were made public.Broken Rites, a church sex abuse support group, along with The Herald in Newcastle, established McAlinden had been a serial child-molester during his 50-year career in the ministry, with at least 20 known victims. The church had moved him between parishes in the Hunter Valley and Western Australia, with stints also in New Zealand and Papua New Guinea. …
Full story from the Sydney Morning Herald, via the Brisbane Times.
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