Australia

Archdiocese of Sydney

• Ross Murrin: Catholic brother pleaded guilty to sexually abusing eight male students.^[102]

Archdiocese of Melbourne

There were several cases of sexual abuse in the Melbourne Archdiocese.

• Michael Charles Glennon: former diocesan priest, sentenced to at least 15 years in jail for sexually abusing four Aboriginal boys between 1984 and 1991.^[103]

• Gerry Francis Ridsdale: convicted in 1994, he pled guilty on 46 sexual offenses.^[104]

• Wilfred James Baker: sentenced to four years in prison (parole after 2 years) for crimes involving eight boys.^[105]

• David Daniel: sentenced to six years jail, with parole after 4.5 years, for molesting four boys, a girl and an adult male.^[106]

• Paul Pavlou: convicted on 29 June 2009 of committing an indecent act with a child under 16 and of being knowingly in possession of child pornography. He was sentenced to an 18 month jail sentence suspended for 24 months and to a two-year community based order. He was registered on the Sex Offenders Register for 15 years. These offences occurred in 2005-2006 while he was the priest at Healesville in the Archdiocese of Melbourne.^[107]

• Francis Klep SDB: convicted of indecent assault in 1994, and charged with an additional five counts. He moved to Samoa, but in 2004 the Samoan government made moves to deport him from the country after becoming aware of the previous conviction and charges.^[108]

[edit]New Zealand

The abuse scandal at the Marylands School is an important chapter in the clerical abuse affairs in New Zealand but other cases have also emerged.