Abusers

Father Bertram Adderley

• Catholic Priest and teacher who was moved around parishes across WA by the Church, enabling him to abuse numerous vulnerable children in a range of institutions and settings. Read more.

William “Bill” Alexander Allen

• Abused multiple children in his care as a teacher in public high schools between 1959 and 1982. Read more.

Father John Barker

• From 1970 through to 2002 served at Dandenong, Hampton, Moreland, East St Kilda, Glenhuntly, Essendon, Ashburton, Armadale, East Keilor and Mornington. Read more.

Peter Bartley

• Teacher at St Scholastica’s primary school in Burwood in the 1990s before going on to hold principal role at Trinity Catholic School in Richmond. Read more.

Brother Robert Charles Best

• Christian Brother who has been convicted for multiple horrific offenses against dozens of young boys committed while he worked as a teacher and principal between 1968 and 1988. Read more.

John Beyer

• Abused a number of young boys as a volunteer at The Salvation Army’s Bayswater Youth Training Centre & Tally Ho Boys’ Home in Burwood from the 1970s through to the 1990s. Read more.

Robert Charles Blunden

• Assistant to Father Arthur Kevin Ryan (see below) and volunteer and fundraiser at St. Matthews Parish, and school handyman at St. Matthews Catholic Primary School, Fawkner in the 1960s. Read more.

Noel Bradford

• Jesuit Priest who held numerous roles at Xavier College in Kew from 1964 – 1979 and later lived at St Ignatius College Riverview. Read more. 

Clement Howard Broadstock

• Manager of the Salvation Army’s Box Hill Boys Home from 1964 until 1968 and Bayswater Youth Training Centre from 1968 until 1970. Read more.

John Hamilton Buckley

• Teacher and housemaster at Geelong Grammar School during the 1980s. Read more.

Ronald T. Buckley

• Superintendent in charge of the Hillside Boys Home, a state-run orphanage in Jells Road, Glen Waverley, between 1959 and 1985. Read more.

Brother Keith Burley

• Teacher priest at Monivae College in Hamilton, Victoria, in the 1960s. Read more.

Robert ‘Bob’ Burnett

• Worked at The Salvation Army’s Bayswater Youth Training Centre and Jacana Children’s Home, and sexually exploited many of the children in his care. Read more.

Paul James Bussey

• Former primary school teacher and principal at State schools in Victoria in the 1970s and 1980s. Read more. 

Father Robert Claffey

• Abused dozens of child parishioners in various parishes in the Diocese of Ballarat including Terang, Warrnambool, Portland, Apollo Bay, and Wendouree between 1969 and 1992. Read more.

Graham Code

• Sports master at Salesian College Chadstone in the 1960s. Read more.

Father Gerard Coffey

• Catholic Priest in the Diocese of Sale, served in the parishes of Bairnsdale, Orbost, Iona, Narre Warren and Drouin throughout the 1970s and 1980s. Read more.

Gregory Vincent Coffey

• Also known by the surname Coffin, this former Salesian turned Marist Brother abused children across numerous parishes in Victoria and South Australia from the 1960s through to the 1990s. Read more.

Envoy Collins

• Abused boys at The Salvation Army’s Bayswater Boys Home in the 1960s and 1970s. Read more.

John Patrick Coogan

• Worked as a physical education teacher at Government schools in the Geelong region from 1962 to 1973 before moving into the Catholic system. Read more.

Father Peter Creede

• Vincentian Priest who worked in parishes including Malvern (VIC), Bathurst (NSW), Southport and Wandal (QLD) and Ashfield (NSW). Read more.

Reginald ‘Adrian’ Crick

• Music teacher at Horsham Technical School from the late 1960s to the mid-1980s, and for much of that time, was also the commanding officer of the school’s army cadet unit. Read more.

Trevor Crocker

• Taught for more than 42 years at 17 schools, including Doncaster East Primary School where he was known to have abused students. Read more.

Rupert Dalley

• Taught at Trinity Grammar School over a number of decades, supervising boys in the classroom, on school bushwalking camps and in sports and drama programs. Read more.

Father Bernard Day

• Served as a parish priest in Victoria for over four decades until the late 1970s, including living and working as a chaplain at St Catherine’s Children’s Home in Highton in Geelong. Read more.

Roger Digges

• Teacher and boarding house tutor at Corio and Glamorgan campuses of Geelong Grammar in the 1970s and early 1980s. Read more.

Gjon Domgjoni

• Teacher at Ardeer South Primary School in Sunshine West in the early 1980s. Read more.

Colin Doo

• Worked as a music teacher and video editor at Lancefield Primary School from 1993 until January 2008, convicted in 2010 for hundreds of child sex offences and sentenced to 23 years jail. Read more.

Brother Edward Vernon Dowlan (also known as Ted Bales)

• Christian Brother who abused numerous boys at schools, orphanages and boys homes in Victoria and Tasmania from the 1970s to the 1990s. Read more.

Arthur Henry Eaton

• Victorian State school teacher who worked at a number of primary schools including Warrnambool West, Derinya (Frankston South) and Belvedere Park. Read more.

Graeme Alfred Eldridge

• Paedophile Presbyterian minister who originally worked in Tasmania in the Presbyterian Church in the 1960s, before moving to Victoria’s Daylesford area in the 1980s. Read more.

Brother Rex Ignatius Elmer

• Christian Brother who sexually abused numerous boys across schools and boys homes in Victoria in the 1960s and 1970s. Read more.

Peter Jeffrey Farmer

• Teacher at Victorian state primary schools including in Newborough (formerly Murray Road Primary) in Gippsland in the 1980s and in Tennant Creek in the Northern Territory. Read more.

Stephen Francis Farrell

• Used his position as a Christian Brother, a school teacher and sports coach to abuse boys – including at the notorious St. Alipius Primary School in Ballarat. Read more.

Shane Featherston

• Paedophile teacher who taught at Altona East Primary School from the mid 1990s through to 2001. Featherston has been convicted and jailed on multiple occasions for abusing children. Read more.

Brother Gerald Fitzgerald

• Christian Brother who physically and sexually abused numerous young boys in institutions across Victoria, including in Geelong, South Melbourne and Ballarat. Read more.

Brother John Frith

• Teacher priest at Monivae College in Hamilton, Victoria, in the 1970s. Read more.

Father Desmond Gannon

• Prolific offender across multiple parishes in Melbourne and regional Victoria for more than two decades starting in the 1960s. Read more.

William ‘Robert’ Gilfillan

• State and private school teacher in Victoria’s Gippsland region from the 1970’s to the 1990’s. Read more.

Geoffrey Rowan Gillies

• Teacher at the Glamorgan campus of Geelong Grammar School in Toorak from 1971 to 1975, during which time he also held roles as boarding house master and sports master. Read more.

Father Michael Glennon

• Abused numerous vulnerable boys and girls, usually through organised youth activities that operated out of Catholic parishes across Victoria, from the 1970s through to the 2000’s. Read more.

James Richard Gunn

• Former teacher and principal who worked across both the public and Catholic education systems for four decades starting in the 1970s. Read more. 

Max Guzelian

• Former music teacher at Geelong Grammar School between 1965 and 1998 who sexually abused numerous students in the course of giving them instrumental music lessons. Read more.

Father Barry Gwillim

• Abusive Catholic Priest who served in St Kilda, Highett, East Keilor, Blackrock and Coburg in Melbourne. Read more.

Brother Anselm Hallam

• Brother of the De La Salle Order and teacher at several De La Salle Schools across Australia in the 1960s and 1970s. Read more.

Father Guy Hartcher

• Vincentian Priest and teacher at St. Stanislaus College, Bathurst, NSW from 1971 to 1974. Read more.

Johnathan Harvey

• Maths teacher and housemaster at Geelong Grammar School from 1969 until 2004. Read more.

Phillip Douglas Hazeldine

• Teacher who abused children at Gippsland Grammar School in the 1970s and 1980s. Read more.

Father Laurence Heydon

• Anglican Minister who offended in the Wangaratta, Deniliquin and Adelaide Hills regions from the 1960s through to the 1980s. Read more.

Stewart Heywood

• Teacher and student counsellor at Wesley College from 1960 to 1987, sexually abused a number of students during counselling sessions. Read more.

Maxwell Perry Hickey

• Maths and science teacher and housemaster at Carey Baptist Grammar School and teacher at Trinity Grammar and Gippsland Grammar. Read more.

Graeme Hobbs

• Volunteer at the Footscray Football Club in the 1970s and 1980s who preyed on vulnerable children in and around the club. Read more.

Brother William Houston

• Sexually and physically abusive member of the Christian Brothers who worked both at Christian Brothers schools and homes in Victoria. Read more.

Christopher John Howell

• Teacher at Trinity Grammar School for over 40 years, commencing in 1966 and retiring in December 2009 – was also Assistant Headmaster.  Read more.

Brother Frank Ibar Keating

• A member of the De La Salle Brothers in the 1960s to 1990s who taught at various schools operated by the De La Salle Brothers in Victoria, Western Australia and NSW. Read more.

George Kelly

• Convicted paedophile and scout master in Sunshine in the 1960s and 1970s who used his position as a Scout master to access and abuse members of his Scout Troop. Read more.

Father Frank Klep

• Abused many boys at Rupertswood boarding school in Sunbury in the 1970s, when he was a teacher and also ran the infirmary. Read more.

Vili Kovac

• PE teacher employed by Xavier College and other Melbourne Catholic schools including Marcellin College in the 1960s and 1970s. Read more.

William Stuart Landman

• Serial abuser who was employed by the Victorian Education Department for more than 40 years from the 1970s – 34 of those as a principal and teacher. Read more.

Peter Jeremy Longley 

• English teacher and boarding house master at The Geelong College in Victoria, also worked at Guilford Grammar and Scotch College in Western Australia. Read more.

Gordon McInnes

• Teacher at Trinity Grammar School in the 1970s and in charge of the school camp at Lake Eppalock. Read more.

Alan Bruce McIntosh

• Teacher and school orchestra and choir conductor at Box Hill Primary School for over 20 years, and at various times held the roles of assistant principal and acting principal.  Read more.

Daniel John Virgil McMahon (Brother/Father McMahon)

• Teacher and school counsellor who abused students at a number of schools in Western Australia, South Australia and Tasmania from the 1960s through to the 1990s. Read more.

John McMillan

• Paedophile school teacher who preyed on students at both Wesley College in Prahran and Preshil in Kew. Read more.

Brother Gerard McNamara

• Marist Brother who abused children at various high schools around Australia, including in Gippsland, Victoria. Read more.

Colin Lance McPherson

• Teacher and housemaster at The Geelong College in Victoria in the 1960s, who took advantage of his position to sexually abuse students. Read more.

Dr. David Mackey

• Predatory live in doctor at Geelong Grammar School from 1964 through to 1993. Read more.

Brother Edward Mamo

• Teacher at Monivae College in the late 1970s, Mamo is one of several teacher priests at the school who abused children in their care. Read more.

Gary Arthur Mitchell

• Primary school teacher between 1964 and 1989, Mitchell taught at schools including Dandenong North Primary School in the late 1960’s and Beaumaris Primary School between 1971 and 1973. Read more.

Father Anthony Moester

• Vice principal and medical officer at Salesian College Chadstone in the 1960s ands 70s. Read more.

Brother Gordon Morgan

• Member of the Order of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart, lived and worked at Monivae College in Hamilton in the 1960s. Brother Morgan worked in the infirmary at Monivae. Read more.

Robert Leonard Morris

• Taught at Victorian Government schools in the 1960s and 70s, abusing dozens of very young boys in classrooms, on school buses, in dorms and on school camps. He was also a Cub leader in Melbourne’s east. Read more. 

Gregory Oates

• Music teacher employed by St Columba’s College in Essendon in the 1980s who sexually assaulted a number of female students. Read more.

Father Kevin O’Donnell

• Parish Priest who abused children in his parish and at Sacred Heart Primary School in Oakleigh. Read more.

Terrence (Terry) O’Sullivan

• Physical education teacher at St Paul’s Primary School in Sunshine West in the late 1970s to 1980s. Read more.

Reverend Michael Painter

• Anglican Priest who sexually abused at least 14 young people across Western Australia, making him the most prolific Anglican paedophile priest in WA history. Read more.

Albert Edward Palframan

• Woodwork volunteer at Geelong College who abused multiple students in the 1980s and 1990s. Read more. 

Father Ronald Pickering

• Catholic Priest who served in a number of parishes across Victoria over three decades from 1960 through to the early 1990s. Read more. 

Father Terence Melville Pidoto

• Catholic Priest who abused children across a number of parishes in Melbourne and regional Victoria and as also chaplain at Assumption College. Read more.

Darrell Vivian Ray

• Convicted in 1979 of sexually abusing St Kilda Little League footballers and in 2001 of abusing students at the Beaumaris and Tucker Road (Moorabbin) primary schools in bayside Melbourne. Read more.

Vincent Henry Reynolds

• Paedophile teacher who taught at a number of Victorian primary schools over three decades, starting in the 1960s. Read more.

Gerald Francis Ridsdale

• Notorious paedophile priest who served in 16 different parishes nationwide from the 1960s through to the 1980s, as he was moved by the church to different parishes following complaints detailing abuse. Read more.

Richard George Ross

• Principal of Braybrook Primary School from 1969 until 1989, and also taught at schools in Pullut, Glenmore, South Caulfield, North Williamstown and Sunshine East. Read more.

Brother Grant Ross (also known as Brother Benignus)

• Religious brother in the Order of the Redemptorist Fathers who abused children in his care starting in the 1940s, mainly in the Ballarat area. Read more.

Brother Gerard Rush

• Sexually abusive member of the Marist Brothers who worked in schools in Victoria and WA that had boarding houses. He offended in multiple schools in the 1960s and 70s. Read more.

Father (Arthur) Kevin Ryan

• Parish Priest at St. Matthews Parish, Fawkner, between April 1964 and March 1972, and also served in other Melbourne parishes including Yarraville, Thornbury and Glenhuntly. Read more.

Rex Walter Ryan

• Classroom and photography teacher who abused children in State Primary Schools, mostly in and around Ballarat. Read more.

Brother Paul Schulze

• Jesuit Brother and teacher at St. Ignatius Primary School from 1971 – 1994 and then St. Ignatius College, Riverview, Sydney from 1995 – 1997. Read more.

John Skehan (also known as Brother Emilian and Brother John)

• Marist Brother and teacher at St. Colman’s College in Shepparton in the 1970s. Read more.

Father Patrick (Paddy) Stephenson

• Jesuit priest who taught geography, religious education and French at Xavier College in Kew for decades starting in the 1920s. Read more.

Mark Geoffrey Stevens

• Caretaker, churchwarden and/or vestry member of the All Saints Anglican Church in the late 1970s and early 1980s who abused members of the church choir. Read more.

Brother Peter Swain

• Teacher, sports coach and assistant at schools operated by the Salesian Order from 1957 – including Salesian College in Chadstone where he sexually abused boys on the school grounds. Read more.

Jack Digney Thomas

• Teacher and principal between 1951 and 1989 at the Mildura and Wodonga Technical Schools and Oakleigh Technical School. Read more.

Brother Aubrey Tobin 

• Sexually and physically abusive member of the Marist Brothers, including at St Paul’s College in Traralgon in the 1970s and 1980s. Read more.

Phillipe Trutmann 

• Live-in boarding house assistant at Highton campus of Geelong Grammar in the 1980s and 1990s who abused numerous boys there. Read more.

Cameron Tweeddale Smith 

• Convicted sex offender who was employed as Brighton Grammar School’s medical officer from around 2003 to 2008. Read more.

Stephanus (Stefan) Petrus Janse Van Vuuren

• Teacher at Geelong Grammar School in 2007 who was caught taking pictures up the skirts of female students. Read more.

Father Philip Wallbridge

• Teacher and Deputy Headmaster at Xavier College in the 1970s, 80s and 90s. Also taught at St. Aloysius in Sydney. Read more.

Barry Francis Watson

• A leader at Park Orchards and Yarra Valley Church of England Boys’ Society (CEBS) in the 1970s and 1980s. Read more.

Mark Watson

• Abused boys between the years of 1974 and 1985 while boarding house master at Trinity Grammar School and also at other schools. He also abused boys in his own home. Read more.

Brother Aloysius Webster

• Abused students as Superintendent at St Augustine’s Orphanage in Geelong and as teacher at St Joseph’s Technical School. Read more.

Brother Keith Weston

• Christian Brother who abused students at St Joseph’s College, Abbotsford, Parade College in Alphington and St Joseph’s Preparatory College in Pascoe Vale. Read more.

Leslie Wiggins

• Boarding master and assistant chaplain at Trinity Grammar School in the 1970s. Read more.

Willem ‘Bill’ Willemsen

• Staff member at the Salvation Army’s Box Hill Boys’ Home from 1958 until 1977. Read more.