Magnus William ("Max") Murray is a laicised

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priest, school teacher and convicted

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in New Zealand.'Priest sentenced to five years' jail'
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''Sunday'' website, viewed 11 September 2018'Paedophile remains a priest'
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'' website dated 2017-08-11, viewed 10 September 2018 He is a prominent figure in New Zealand discussion of Catholic Church sexual abuse cases. In 2003, Murray admitted 10 charges relating to offending against four Dunedin boys between 1958 and 1972. He was jailed for five years, but served less than three.Sins of the father
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'' website dated 2017-08-01, viewed 10 September 2018 He was ordained in 1949. He taught at St Paul's High School in

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until 1972. He was "removed at the first hint of a problem in 1972" and went to Australia voluntarily for therapy. He had been stationed at St Bernadette's Church, in St Clair and later at St Mary's Church, in Mosgiel. Following his removal to Australia, he served as a priest in

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parish, in Sydney. He returned to New Zealand in 1976 and worked briefly in

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, Mt Maunganui, Tauranga and Kaikohe, then six years as a

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in Waihi followed by four years in Ngāruawāhia before retiring in 1990. He lives in a rest home where he is being treated for

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. He was laicised in 2019."Paedophile priest who served in Hamilton and Dunedin defrocked by Catholic church", ''Stuff News'', 23 May 2019

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'Convicted priest left in 1972' by Rosemarie Smith, ''The Southland Times'' 1 September 200
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