no one listened to hundreds of complaints about priest, says principal /

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‘How do I glimpse after 400-and-something kids when we’ve got this raving lunatic loose?,’ former headmaster says of ‘diabolical position’ he was inA former principal of a school in Victoria has said he received and passed on “hundreds” of complaints from parents and staff about the inappropriate behaviour towards children of a parish priest, Peter Searson.
But Graeme Sleeman, and then the head of the Holy Family Parish school in Doveton,told the royal commission into institutional responses into child sexual abuse on Wednesday that none of those complaints, made across two and a half years between 1984 and 1986, or had been acted upon by senior parish staff,including the then archbishop Frank itsy-bitsy.
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Source: theguardian.com

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