But I am quite certain that his name was Godfrey or Louis Scerri and that he was Prefect of Discipline for the Prep Boys

[Daphne – This one now is GodWIN Scerri. Yes, the one you’re thinking of is GodFREY Scerri. I remember him too.]

@ Baxxter – I think I know who you mean. He was the rector when I was at Sixth Form. In fact, I can never look at my graduation photo in the same way.

To think that he was such a ‘pastizz’ at the time – and that was years before I heard that he had fathered a child with a woman four decades his junior.

Men like that probably want to live the adventures they never had in their youth. As for the women? I simply can’t understand what’s in it for them, being saddled with someone old enough to be their grandfather. They must really be desperate, or one of those women who think a man is worth having if they’ve stolen him away from something – his family, for example, or the priesthood.

Do you really believe that they will actually spend time there?

I know it wasn’t Scerri. I’m just presenting the smörgåsbord of smut among the swine who schooled us.

Did I mention the one who went to France for a year’s sabbatical, and bagged a 22-year old crumpet? He was 66. That’s Jesuit suaveness for you.

Many of the victims are today’s problem teenagers/men who cannot adapt to society because they bring out the worst of themselves as a result of what they have been made to endure in the past, and very few are those who manage to rise to life’s challenges.

This to explain that no prison sentence can ever do enough justice, let alone just a few years. I am disgusted about it all.

He probably meant acquitted of the rape charge.

Having had somewhat close ties with a society in the past, I know that for everyday needs, members of the community just need to keep receipts of their expenditures to show to their superiors and justify where money has been spent. I believe it is the same case for getting the services of a lawyer.

Ah, but that was not a Scerri. He had a different surname entirely. And yes, it shocked me to see him with a girl (Albanian) barely looking 15, complete with white school-girl-type tights (the girl, not the ex-Jesuit0.

And yes, they did multiply, though I believe that they are now married. Not that it changes my opinion of him or of the relationship anyway, though, bearing in mind that this man was some 30 years or so her senior, and a supposed missionary in Albania.

Oh, and let’s not start about the senior one who, aged around 64 – and still in a very senior position – got “shipped away” for fathering a child with a 28-year-old teacher.

It makes you wonder why they become priests in the first place.

The Jesuit Fr Scerri I remember at St Aloysius College was a different person to the priest sentenced yesterday.

He was just spreading the message of love.