Father Michael Scott Aulsebrook

Father Michael Scott Aulsebrook is a former teacher and Salesian priest who has been jailed for committing child sexual abuse in the 1980s and 1990s. Despite knowledge of his offending, the Salesians retained Father Aulsebrook in the priesthood and promoted him at one stage as principal of Salesian College Brooklyn Park in Adelaide in 2003. In 2011, Father Aulsebrook was jailed over charges involving child sexual abuse committed in 1983 while at Rupertswood in Sunbury, Melbourne. This prompted more victims to speak out and Father Aulsebrook was jailed again in 2016 in relation to three other victims who made allegations of child sexual abuse against him. He pleaded guilty to indecently assaulting two victims, a boy and a girl while sleeping in their beds in 1987, while staying with the family, and pleaded not guilty to raping a male student at Rupertswood in 1988 but was found guilty by a jury.

In 2019, Father Aulsebrook pleaded guilty in the Melbourne County Court to indecently assaulting a boy aged 11 or 12 at a summer holiday camp he was managing when he was a Salesian Brother in the mid-1980s. Victoria Police were notified of the abuse by the victim in 2016. Father Auslebrook was sentenced to another 22 months in jail before becoming eligible for parole.

Moody Law has in the past represented and still representing clients who were sexually abused by members of the Salesian Order.

We invite former victims of Father Auslebrook to tell us confidentially what information they may have, and we will explain what options are available to help with these cases.

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