Father Leo Wright

Father Leo Wright was a repeat offender who mainly worked in the Archdiocese of Brisbane throughout his religious career. In a court case in 1997 in the Brisbane District Court, it was revealed that the Catholic Church in Queensland apparently knew for 25 years that Father Wright had been committing sex crimes against children, but they retained him in the ministry where he continued to offend.

Father Wright worked/served at the following places (among others):

• assistant parish priest at the Catholic Church in Manly; and

• full-time superintendent of St Martin's Aboriginal Hostel, Brisbane, under the Catholic Family Welfare Bureau.

In 1997, Father Wright was given a further 18-month jail sentence for four charges of indecent dealings involving an Aboriginal girl ("Sally"), from 1970 to 1976, when she was aged from 12 to 18. The offences began at an Aboriginal community, where Wright was ministering.  Father Wright’s further sentencing was on top of the three years he was already serving for child-sex offences committed against four girls (one of whom was Aboriginal) and one boy in 1968-77.

Moody Law is currently representing a client who was a victim of child sexual abuse by Father Leo Wright.

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