In Australia, there are allegations that the Salesians moved a priest convicted of abuse in Melbourne to Samoa to avoid further police investigation and charges.
[1][2] In August 2008, the Salesian head in Australia, Fr Frank Moloney SDB, apologised to victims of a former priest Paul Evans convicted of a series of offences.
"[7] Other priests from the college reached settlements with substantial compensation payments paid to their victims, over allegations of sexual abuse, but were not otherwise convicted,[8][9][10][11] while Father Jack Ayers, a teacher and gardener at the school, was moved to Samoa after accusations were made against him.
[12] In 2007, a Belgian criminal court convicted Willem VC, a laicised Salesian priest, to four years imprisonment for sexual delinquency with multiple adolescent minors.
During the criminal investigation by the police and judiciary previous acts of sexual delinquency were discovered that occurred during his membership of the Salesian congregation.
[14] Reporting by CNN revealed that the Salesian order of Belgium was aware of the convictions and of problems with Delft's behavior dating back as far as 2001[1] when it he confessed he had molested two boys in a Don Bosco school in Zwijnaarde.
Despite this conviction, he was able to travel to the Central African Republic (CAR) in 2013 to work in a leading role for the catholic NGO Caritas in the country, with the knowledge of the Salesian order and the probation committee in Belgium.
[24] In 2012, the Oblates of St Francis de Sales of the Wilmington/ Philadelphia Province, an Order that is separate and distinct from the Salesians of Don Bosco, published an open letter of contrition and healing over activities in 2004 in Wilmington, Delaware.
[26] Father Nugent lavished tens of thousands of the Salesians of Don Bosco's dollars on Patrick, one of seven children of a perennially broke alcoholic single mother, paying for anything he wanted, like a trip to Europe, motel rooms for trysts with his girlfriends and endless beer.
They said he turned a stone house on school property into a sort of Plato's Youth Retreat, stocking it with vast amounts of liquor for parties, encouraging under-age couples to use it as a love nest.
Ms. Gallagher said that Nugent lavished tens of thousands of the Salesians' dollars on Patrick, one of seven children of a perennially broke alcoholic single mother, paying for anything he wanted, like a trip to Europe, motel rooms for trysts with his girlfriends and endless beer.
She says he took her shopping often, bought her dinner at fancy restaurants and gave her hundreds of dollars to buy marijuana for herself and her friends, stuffing tightly folded bills into her pants pockets.
Eventually, Brendan said, Patrick began pushing Nugent away, but in 1980, while drunk, he drove a car owned by the Salesians into a pond and died.
While the mother was busy at work and night school, Miani would show up at the family home and molest the 15-year-old son and two daughters, the court documents said.
In 2000, Dabbene was "removed from ministry" after he was arrested for suspected child molestation when he was caught with a minor by a police officer in San Francisco.
[37] He was placed on three years’ probation, given 300 hours of community service, required to undergo counseling and avoid minors, and to register as a sex offender.
[38] In 2002, another survivor came forward alleging child sexual abuse by Dabbene in 1959, while he worked as a teacher and lay brother at Salesian High School in Richmond, California.
Whelan was removed from public ministry as a result and was added to the Diocese of Oakland (California)'s list of credibly accused priests in 2019.