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Catholic Church to be sued by ex school principal who complained about paedophile priest

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Father Peter Searson in 1992 sitting in a chair at the front of a class photo.
Father Peter Searson in 1992.(Supplied)

A former Catholic school principal who tried in vain to protect his students from a violent paedophile priest in the 1980s is planning to sue the Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne. Graeme Sleeman says the Archdiocese protected the priest and when he resigned in protest he lost his career.

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