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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

Record class

Core record

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

Spiritual nexus

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.

  • Pastoral or clerical authority

Evidence structure

Proceedings

  1. 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

Primary record

Sources

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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