• News Article

'Playboy rapist' sues Catholic order for abuse

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  • In

    The Sydney Morning Herald

  • Author

    Bibby, Paul; Callinan, Rory

  • Publication Date

    25 November 2012

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    He was dubbed the playboy rapist - a male model and occasional actor whose seductive charms hid a violent, narcissistic streak that eventually saw him jailed for more than seven years over the brutal rape of a woman in Sydney's eastern suburbs.

    But now Simon Monteiro says that, years before he cut a swath through Sydney's high-society women, it was he who was the victim of violence and sexual abuse at the hands of the Catholic Church's St John of God order.

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