Conviction Christian institutions & contexts Catholic Burradoo (Bowral), New South Wales, Australia · 2021

Australia: Missionaries of the Sacred Heart priest jailed for fifteen years for abusing twelve boarding-school students

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Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

Priest of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart; dormitory manager, rugby coach and band teacher at Chevalier College

Organization

Missionaries of the Sacred Heart (MSC), Chevalier College

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The victims were boarding students under Caruana's own religious order's residential authority, abused by a priest whose dormitory-manager role was itself an assignment of his priestly office within the order's school.

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Proceedings

2021-12-10 · conviction

New South Wales District Court, Australia. Anthony William Peter Caruana, a priest of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart who served as dormitory manager, rugby coach and band teacher at Chevalier College, a Catholic boarding school at Burradoo near Bowral, was found guilty by a jury of 23 charges (22 counts of indecent assault and four counts of sexual intercourse with a pupil) for abusing twelve students in his care between 1982 and 1988. On 10 December 2021 he was sentenced to fifteen years' imprisonment with a ten-year non-parole period, at age 80.

Documented coercion mechanisms

priestly office combined with residential dormitory authority over boarding students at the order's own school

Cited record

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specialist advocacy press verdict and sentencing report Broken Rites Australia: A priest, aged 80, is jailed by a Sydney court for sexual crimes he committed against children at a Catholic boarding school many years ago.: Report of the sentencing, order affiliation, charges, sentence and non-parole period.
regional newspaper sentencing report Illawarra Mercury: Anthony Caruana jailed for 15 years for abusing 12 students at Chevalier College near Bowral.: Regional report confirming the sentence and the twelve former students who brought the case.

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Source and tier basis: http://www.brokenrites.org.au/drupal/node/185 Corpus classification: specialist-advocacy-press; evidentiary role: verdict-and-sentencing-report. SHA-256 50c96449a150b4f3f7dc464f9fc027cc724fa13d03b6bc35c17f182af54948f2
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Source and tier basis: https://www.illawarramercury.com.au/story/7546384/twelve-ex-students-unite-to-bring-down-80-year-old-pedophile-priest-anthony-caruana/ Corpus classification: regional-newspaper; evidentiary role: sentencing-report. SHA-256 a420a4458def8673147f015b7acce52c9b0d256624aac810564fbae2f268cbf5
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