Right: Michael Charles Glennon, a now-defrocked Catholic priest, was jailed for numerous offences involving children. Background information
The following is a summary of Catholic clergy in Australia who have confessed to or been found guilty of sexual abuse. (The source of this data in the Wikipedia entry 'Roman Catholic sex abuse cases by country'. This entry can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Catholic_sex_abuse_cases_by_countryArchdiocese of Sydney
Ross Murrin - a Catholic brother pleads guilty in 2007 to sexually abusing eight male students in 1974.
Archdiocese of Melbourne
Michael Charles Glennon - sentenced to at least 15 years in jail for sexually abusing four Aboriginal boys between 1984 and 1991.
Wilfred James Baker - self-confessed sexually abusive priest sentenced to four years in prison (parole after 2 years) for 16 counts of indecent assault and one of gross indecency, involving eight boys, aged 10 to 13, over a 20-year period between 1960 and 1979. Baker fondled the boys sexually in bed during weekend trips and rubbed himself against them.
David Daniel - sentenced to six years jail, with parole after 4.5 years, for molesting four boys, a girl and an adult male.
Rex Elmer - self-confessed child sexual abuser sentenced in 1998 to five years jail (with parole after 3 years 4 months) for molesting 12 boys at St Vincent's orphanage in South Melbourne.
Archdiocese of Brisbane
Francis Edward Derriman - sentenced in 1998 to 12 months jail (suspended after serving four months) after being found guilty of indecently dealing with a teenage girl.
Archdiocese of Perth
Gerard William Dick - self-confessed sexually abusive priest sentenced to three and a half years jail in 1995 for ten incidents of indecently dealing with boys aged eight to ten at a Christian Brothers orphanage in Western Australia.
Archdiocese of Townsville
Neville Joseph Creen - molested young girls while he served as a priest at Mount Isa, north-west Queensland (in the Townsville diocese), from 1973 to 1981. In Brisbane District Court on 12 September 2003, Creen (aged 63) was sentenced to three-and-half years' jail (suspended after 14 months) after admitting to 34 indecent dealing charges involving 18 girls under the age of 13. One girl was aged just five when Creen abused her at a youth camp and later at the home of her grandparents.
Archdiocese of Ballarat
Gerry Francis Ridsdale - has pleaded guilty to indecently assaulting a total of 40 children (comprising 39 boys and one girl). He is serving a jail sentence of 19 years (minimum), with parole possible in the year 2013.
Archdiocese of Bunbury
Adrian Richard Van Klooster - plead guilty to four counts of indecently dealing with children under the age of 13, and was found with child pornography on his computer under the heading, 'Parish Business'
Archdiocese of Wagga Wagga
Vincent Kiss - was sentenced to ten and a half years in jail (eligible for parole after seven years) for sex crimes against four teenage boys. He pleaded guilty to three charges of buggery and ten of indecent assault.
Marist Fathers of Tasmania
Gregory Ferguson - was sentenced on 15 May 2007 to two years jail (eligible for parole after 12 months), for offences in 1971 against two boys aged 13 at Marist College, Burnie, Tasmania. On 13 December 2007, he was sentenced to an additional three years' jail for offences against a third boy, making a total of five years' jail.