Priest left US after admission in sex case

By Stephen Kurkjian and John Ellement

Globe Staff / January 14, 2004

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A year after the Archdiocese of Boston adopted a new policy on handling allegations of clergy sexual abuse in the 1990s, an Australian priest who had admitted having sex with a teenager abruptly left the archdiocese and the country, short-circuiting a potential investigation by police and child welfare authorities, according to documents filed yesterday in Suffolk Superior Court. (Full Article: 1108 Words)