catholic diocese of maitland newcastle

The Catholic Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle is appealing a landmark ruling that found it liable for the 1969 sexual abuse of a student by Father Ron Pickin.

In a significant legal development, the Catholic Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle has been held liable for the actions of Father Pickin, who died in 2015, but who had been a Scripture teacher accused of abusing children under their care.

Seeking witnesses who may have information about Father Rees, a priest or assistant priest at Our Lady of Good Counsel Church in West Wallsend NSW, between approximately 1985 and 1988

Koffels Solicitors and Barristers are looking to speak to anyone with information about abuses by Father Patrick Casey and Brother Dominic aka Darcy O’Sullivan.

Koffels Solicitors and Barristers are seeking witnesses to child sexual abuse perpetrated by Father David Anthony O’Hearn. The crimes occurred in the Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle north of Sydney in the 1980s and 1990s. At the same time, O’Hearn served in various parishes.

Father Peter Brock was charged with 22 child sexual abuse offences relating to twin boys in the Maitland-Newcastle Diocese in the 1970s

Established in 1847, the Diocese of Maitland Newcastle – formerly known as the Diocese of Maitland – has caught itself in the epicentre of a Catholic Institutional Child Sexual Abuse Scandal in the heart of Australia.