Unholy Trinity
The Hunt for the Paedophile Priest Monsignor John Day
- English
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About this book
One policeman's desperate and moving account of his decades-long struggle to bring a depraved pedophile priest to justiceāonly to find himself obstructed by the Catholic Church and betrayed by his own police force.
Monsignor John Day, who was arguably Australia's most prolific pedophile,Ā died in 1978. His victims are counted in the hundreds. Yet when Day died, he was feted by Bishop Ronald Mulkearns as having "faithfully fulfilled his ministry in God's name." For years his crimes had been overlooked and tacitly endorsed by the church. Unbelievably, Day had committed his terrible crimes with the knowledge and protection of senior members of the Victoria Police, as well as the Clerk of the Courts, the most senior officer of the court in Mildura in the 1960s and 70s. Denis Ryan, a young police detective from Melbourne, had transferred to Mildura in the early 1960s. By the tacit rules of the day, priests were not to be charged for any crime short of murder in Victoria. But Ryan was a good cop, and quickly gained the trust of the people of Mildura. One by one the victims started coming forwardāchildren who had been molested by Monsignor Day, and their shocked and sometimes disbelieving parents. Armed with a dozen or more signed statements, Ryan had sufficient evidence to lay charges. Then began his nightmare, as his every step towards bringing Day to justice was blocked by the Catholic Church and then the Victoria Police. Ryan struggled for decades to have his story and those of Day's countless victims heard, but shamefully, this will be the first time this tragic tale is made public. This is Ryan's story, told in his own words. It is also the story of Day's victims, many of whom are alive today, and are here for the first time given a voice. After all this time, at last the truth can now be told.
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Table of contents
- COVER PAGE
- TITLE PAGE
- COPYRIGHT PAGE
- DEDICATION
- CONTENTS
- AUTHORSā NOTE
- FOREWORD
- PROLOGUE: AN EXTRAORDINARY COINCIDENCE
- 1. ON THE BEAT
- 2. DITCHING THE UNIFORM
- 3. THE DEEP NORTH
- 4. CONFESSIONS
- 5. POWER WITHOUT GLORY
- 6. THE CATHOLIC MAFIA
- 7. THE SMOTHER
- 8. A BRUSH WITH SCANDAL
- 9. BLOODIED BUT UNBOWED
- AFTERWORD
- DAY AND THE DARKNESS: THREE VICTIMS SPEAK
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS