Stephen Farrell

Stephen Farrell was born in 1951 and entered the Christian Brothers juniorate in 1968. He did not make his final profession and therefore did not become part of the clergy.

In 1973, Farrell was appointed to teach grade 5 at St Alipius Parish School in East Ballarat.  This was Mr Farrell’s his first year as a teacher in the State of Victoria. The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in Case Study No. 28 - Catholic Church authorities in Ballarat – heard from various victims who were sexually abused by Stephen Farrell while he was a teacher at St Alipius. In the two years he was teaching at St Alipius, at least three allegations emerged about Farrell’s sexual conduct with children.

In 1997, Farrell was convicted of nine counts of indecent assault against two boys aged nine and 10 at St Alipius. He was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment, wholly suspended. In 2013, Farrell was convicted of a further charge of indecent assault on another 10-year-old boy at St Alipius.

Moody Law has represented and is currently representing clients who were victims of child sexual abuse at St Alipius and at other institutions within the Catholic Diocese of Ballarat.

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