What Xavier is doing to help ex-students who were sexually abused

NOTHING......

Warning. This document contains material about child sex abuse.

If you find it upsetting or concerning talk to your parents, the Rector or the Headmaster.

There are also support lines.

Blue Knot Helpline on 1300 657 380

Australian Institute of Family Studies-victim support http://www.aifs.gov.au/acssa/crisis.html

Sexual Assault Crisis Line 800 806 292

Lifeline 13 11 14

Youth BeyondBlue 1300 224 636 There has been a long history of sex abuse and covering it up at Xavier College, Burke Hall and Kostka Hall and other Jesuit schools. There have been at least 30 offenders at these schools from 1957 - 1997. There are cases after 2000 no one knows about.

Xavier College does NOTHING to help or assist these ex-students. Many suffer depression, anxiety, PTSD and struggle every day still.

The Old Xaverians Association does NOTHING to help them.

The College Board does NOTHING to help them.

The Xavier Foundation does NOTHING to help them.

Jesuit Education does NOTHING to help them.

The does NOTHING to help them.

(The Society of Jesus listens to claims for compensation, lawyers on both sides negotiate, if a compensation settlement is offered and accepted by the survivor, he is legally sworn to silence and cannot talk about it. All settlements deny liability i.e. they deny the offender did it. That's not what I mean by help)

The school and the Old Xaverians Association have been asked to proactively reach out to ex-students using any email or postal address they have, and they have refused to do so.

Keep it quiet and it will go away is the idea. They all wash their hands of it send it all to the Director of Professional Standards at the Hawthorn head office to manage, dismiss or settle and keep it secret.

From the many sex abusers at Xavier, Burke Hall, Kostka and other schools, Xavier College and the Society of Jesus have NEVER admitted they were sex abusers unless they are convicted in a court.

Examples: P.J. Stephenson s.j. was a sex abuser and a sadist and a pervert. That's a fact. I know of five ex-students who were sexually assaulted by him. The school and the Society of Jesus still deny he was a sex abuser.

Chris Middleton SJ, Rector in 2016 said: "on the available evidence, there is room for genuine misunderstanding as to his intentions". [1]

These ex-students will tell you there is no misunderstanding when a priest slides his hand up inside the leg of your shorts, or when he he tells you to drop your pants so he can check your genitals or sits you on his bed and strokes your leg. Stephenson's name can still be seen in the pool area. Peter Quin s.j. was at Xavier College - 1956-1958, 1970-1973, 1989-1992 He sexually and physically assaulted boys. When he died in 2016 his requiem mass [2] was attended by Chris Middleton sj, Brian McCoy sj, Chris Gleeson sj. Frank Brennan sj, Richard Leonard sj and Archbishop Mark Coleridge. Many wonderful things were said about him, you would think he was a saint. An ex-student recalls: "We all thought Quin was mentally deranged and a pervert along with Tim Carter"

Peter Beer s.j. was only at Xavier for 1969, he groomed boys and sexually assaulted some. As the senior boarders' master he had 24/7 access. He had boys in his room at night giving them alcohol and letting them smoke cigarettes. Peter Beer s.j. now is a Retreat Director at Canisius House, Sydney and highly respected.

Philip Wallbridge s.j. was Rector 1992-93. He has since left the priesthood. An ex-student reports: "He would select a group of boys to go on 'retreat' with him to a rural property near Euroa. Alcohol would be consumed. Wallbridge would tell the boys that masturbation was normal and every male did it. Then he would encourage the boys to openly masturbate in view of him and the other boys, and Wallbridge would openly masturbate as well." He is still living and has never been questioned. Recently one of those boys tried to get compensation and was told "there's nothing we can do".

Ex- student Eldon Hogan was a sex abuser after he left Xavier and continued to assist with the Cadets, he left a lot of money in trust which is still being distributed to Xavier. His name is on the building there, his trust gave $4 million to build it. His trust is financing the current archives renovation. Peter Walsh, a Board Member, distributes the money.

There are many similar stories about the many others and according to Xavier College and the Society of Jesus these priests and lay persons were not sex abusers.

The Society of Jesus will not publish a list of names of those credibly accused of sex offences as the five North American Jesuit Provinces have.

The dishonesty, duplicity, denial and cover-ups increase the suffering of the survivors. Justice is about truth. The truth is being denied and covered up.

Can you, as a student, fully trust your school and the Jesuit ethos if they themselves are denying and covering up the dark history of Xavier. You can ask them what happened back then. The room you spend time in might have been the site of a boy being raped.

Do you deserve to know this? "men for others" is the Jesuit motto, but not for survivors of sex abuse it seems.

Should the full and true history of Xavier College be known, not the one that erases anything bad?

When P.J. Stephenson's name was removed from the centre, donations to the Xavier Foundation dropped markedly. Is protecting donations and income one of the reasons?

As a student of Xavier College you have the right to ask any questions you might want to. My name is Mark Prytz, I was a boarder from 1966-69. I have a website about it all if you want more information. http://xavier-college-kew-abuse.com

I wish you well in your studies and success in your life ahead. The personal qualities you are taught, compassion, truth, justice, love, caring for others are qualities your school and the Society of Jesus struggle to exercise themselves.

NOTES:

*[1] https://xavier.vic.edu.au/xavier/content/letter-rector-concerning-%E2%80%9Clights-and- shadows-xavier-story%E2%80%9D

*[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuHUKfMF5_s&feature=share

Appendix 1: Sex abusers.

BURKE HALL

John Byrne 1967-1972 (Riverview 1962-1966)** Paul Schultz 1968-1970 (Riverview 1995-1997)** Greg ( Mac) Larkin 1962-1966* Peter Beer 1957-1959 Phillip Wallbridge 1973 Richard Galbraith 1959-1961 B Purcell 1957 Henry Sneddon 1969- 1976 (Riverview 1954-1956,1962-1968) *

Lay staff: W Marum 1965-1976 W Kovacs (convicted) ***L Kean (music teacher) 1977-?1979,1981

KOSTKA HALL

Joseph Craig 1939-1968 ** Greg Larkin 1971-1980 * Phillip Wallbridge 1971-1972 Herbert Balding 1969-1971,1974-1975 (allegations concerning adults NOT children)**

Lay staff: W Kovacs. (convicted)

XAVIER COLLEGE

*** Brenton Lewis (scholastic, assistant to junior boarders) 1977-?1979 Noel Bradford 1963 - 1979 (St Pats East 1962,Riverview 1980-1985,1996-1997)**(alive) Patrick Stephenson 1931- 1990** ( The Province is ambivalent about his status but have paid out on claims and removed his name from the Xavier Sports Centre) Richard Galbraith 1968 Peter Beer 1969 Peter Quin 1956-1958,1970-1973, 1989-1992 (Riverview 1974-1981)** Tim Carter 1971-1974 Phillip Wallbridge 1974-19??,1992-1993 Richard (Donal)Lane 1961-1962 ** J R Boylen 1950 - 1959 ** Michael O’Mahoney 1946-1959* Stan Hogan ? 1990,s ( convicted and jailed for child pornography) Lay staff: W Kovacs (convicted) Eldon Hogan *** L.Kean(music teacher) 1975,1976

Other Jesuit sex offenders:

Victor Higgs (convicted) Leo Flynn ( under investigation at time of death) David Rankin (convicted) James McInerney** (Riverview ,Corpus christi seminary, Aquinas college, Newman college)

*** new addition ** Allegations accepted by the Jesuit Province * Allegations received by the Province and otherwise as alleged by individuals, ( including convictions in Australia of Jesuits not connected to Xavier)

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