4 named, all paedophile priests associated with the Catholic Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle West, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia Vincent "Vince" Gerard Ryan David Anthony O'Hearn Thomas "Tom" Kenneth Brennan John Sidney Denham Dorothy Ralph had three parish priests after she became a Catholic at 70, and all three were child sex offenders THREE priests dominated the last years of Dorothy Ralph's life after she moved to a unit across the road from St Joseph's Church at Cessnock in 1991 and became a Catholic at 70. Convicted child sex offender Vince Ryan converted her, convicted child sex offender David O'Hearn charmed and flattered her and Tom Brennan employed her as his housekeeper for eight years, until the day Mrs Ralph was sent to a nursing home for "respite" in 2012, only hours before Brennan was charged with child sex offences. Mrs Ralph's daughter, Trudy Rogers, finds it hard to read letters her mother received from Ryan and O'Hearn in November, 2012 after she turned to them in her grief following Brennan's death, of cancer, a few weeks after he was charged. O'Hearn was in jail by then and Ryan on parole. The then prime minister Julia Gillard had just established the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse after a campaign launched by the Newcastle Herald following years of reports about Hunter child sex offenders. Mrs Ralph became a Catholic at Cessnock while Ryan and O'Hearn were the ... Continue reading... https://www.examiner.com.au/story/6...l-damage-to-the-catholic-abuse-tragedy/?cs=12
Dorothy Ralph had three parish priests after she became a Catholic at 70, and all three were child sex offenders then Brennan was charged and convicted of making a false statement to police in which he denied being told priest and teacher John Denham had sexually abused boys, while Brennan was principal of St ... Continue reading... https://www.examiner.com.au/story/6362580/how-an-elderly-woman-became-collateral-damage-to-the-catholic-abuse-tragedy/
Dorothy Ralph had three parish priests after she became a Catholic at 70, and all three were child sex offenders then Brennan was charged and convicted of making a false statement to police in which he denied being told priest and teacher John Denham had sexually abused boys, while Brennan was principal of St ... Continue reading... https://www.bordermail.com.au/story/6362331/how-an-elderly-woman-became-collateral-damage-to-the-catholic-abuse-tragedy/?cs=9676
