article_snippet: We've all attended many funerals of boys that We now know were abused by [Father Ronald] Pickering ... and other perpetrators in the parish - at the actual church that it occurred in,' Australian actress Rachel Griffiths said. '
article_snippet: Pickering abused boys between 1960 and 1980 while working as a priest in Melbourne . '
article_snippet: At least five people killed At least five people after being sexually abused by paedophile priest Ronald Pickering between 1960 and 1980, according to research carried out in 2012.
article_snippet: One victim, Raymond D'Brass, told a 2013 Victorian government inquiry that Pickering groomed a paedophile priest with cigarettes, money and alcohol.
article_snippet: In a paedophile priest statement at the parliamentary inquiry on March 4, 2013, Mr D'Brass said: 'Over this four-year period I am aware that two other boys were also sexually abused by paedophile priest Ronald Pickering. '
article_snippet: I was regularly fondled and petted by paedophile priest Ronald Pickering, as were other boys.
article_snippet: I began smoking cigarettes and drinking alcohol with paedophile priest Ronald Pickering from the age of nine and on many occasions passed out from consuming the alcohol, which left me vulnerable to such abuse.'
article_snippet: In 1983, I stopped going to the presbytery after paedophile priest Ronald Pickering verbally abused me in front of the other boys for choosing not to attend the upcoming Sunday service and instead going to the cricket with paedophile priest Ronald Pickering. '
article_snippet: Between 1983 and 1987, the two other boys who I know were abused continued to visit the presbytery and receive money, alcohol and cigarettes from paedophile priest Ronald Pickering, but I chose not to because I was terrified of He.
article_snippet: I have no doubt that they were continuing to be abused by paedophile priest Ronald Pickering. '