Tony
Abbott insisted on providing a character reference for a Catholic
priest later struck off the clergy list by the Vatican following a child
abuse case, the former priest says.
John Gerard Nestor, who attended Sydney's St Patrick's Seminary with Mr Abbott in the 1980s, was a priest in the Wollongong diocese in NSW when he was charged with the indecent assault of a 15-year-old altar boy in 1991.
http://www.illawarramercury.com.au/story/1307092/abbott-insisted-on-helping-priest-with-case/
John Gerard Nestor, who attended Sydney's St Patrick's Seminary with Mr Abbott in the 1980s, was a priest in the Wollongong diocese in NSW when he was charged with the indecent assault of a 15-year-old altar boy in 1991.
http://www.illawarramercury.com.au/story/1307092/abbott-insisted-on-helping-priest-with-case/