Father Bertram Richard Adderley

Before joining the Christian Brothers, Father Bertram Adderley had been a lay teacher in the 1950’s at Aquinas College, Perth. Once ordained as a priest, Father Adderley served as a priest in the Catholic Diocese of Bunbury from 1959 to 1974. The Government Gazette of Western Australia indicates that Rev. Bertram Richard Adderley was serving in 1960 at The Catholic Presbytery in Narrogin in the Williams district. Father Adderley also throughout his service in the 1960s, oversaw the implementation of Catholic education in the Diocese of Bunbury until 1965 when the Diocese started to receive numerous complaints and allegations of sexual abuse. Consequently, he was transferred to minor parishes such as Mannup and Manjimup. In 1975, Father Adderley left the parish ministry on the basis that he was '‘on leave.” Information brought forward has indicated that while Father Adderley was placed at a parish school, he had been built a residence by the Diocese where he conducted “sexual-education” classes with young boys in total isolation. Father Adderley died in 1983. Western Australia Police were unable to charge him with any of the allegations they had received in relation to child sexual abuse.

Moody Law has in the past represented a client who was a victim of child sexual abuse by Father Bertram Adderley.

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