Former St Patrick’s College, Ballarat, principal took no action after learning teacher kissed boys

By Shannon Deery
Herald Sun
February 23, 2016

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A SENIOR Christian Brother saw nothing wrong with one of his colleagues kissing every boy in his class before they left school for the day.

Br Paul Nangle also told the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse today that child abuse may not always be a sin.

The commission heard Gerald Leo Fitzgerald, known as Br Leo to his grade three class at Ballarat’s St Alipius’s Primary School, had long been considered a danger.

As early as the 1950s he had been censured “as strongly as possible” after it was discovered he had kissed a boy and was routinely entering boys’ bedrooms.

But when the policeman father of one of the students complained of the group kissing practice Christian Brothers superior Br Nangle In 1975, he thought nothing of it.