A New South Wales Hunter region church official sent a
priest who admitted to being attracted to young boys to a psychiatrist
with the hope that he could be "cured" so that he could return to being a
"most effective priest".
The Royal Commission into Institutional
Responses to Child Sexual Abuse hearing in Newcastle is investigating
abuse at the hands of Vincent Ryan, a Catholic priest who worked in the
Maitland-Newcastle diocese for decades.http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-09-02/church-sent-paedophile-priest-to-psychiatrist-to-be-cured/7808304