Controversy
Father Michael Francis Reis (known as Mick Reis), who taught at Monivae College in Victoria and Downlands College in Queensland, was sentenced in Brisbane on 6 November 2008 to 18 months jail (with a minimum of six months) for sexual offences against two young girls in the 1980s and 1990s.
In February 2012 a former religious Brother, Edward Mamo (born 26 September 1944), began a series of court appearances, charged with offences allegedly committed in the late 1970s and early 1980s against boys at Monivae College. The investigation is continuing, by detectives at the Sexual Offences and Child Abuse Unit in Warrnambool.
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