Priests in neighbouring Melbourne parishes would talk about Fr Peter Searson's psychotic behaviour but a cover-up kept his sexual abuse of children secret, a former senior Catholic Church figure says.
You only had to be in the Doveton parish for five minutes and you'd hear about Searson, former Melbourne archdiocese vicar-general Bishop Hilton Deakin says. Bishop Deakin's friends who were priests
in nearby parishes would talk about Searson, the Doveton parish priest
from 1984 to 1997.
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