AUSTRALIA
ABC News
[with video]
By Anthea Kissell
The Catholic Bishop of the Northern Territory says the people of the Tiwi Islands should decide if a Royal Commission is to revisit an alleged child sexual abuse case.
Brother John Hallett was accused of systematically abusing boys at the Francis Xavier Boys School at Nguiu from the mid-1980s to 2003.
He was found guilty of a number of offences by a Darwin jury but his convictions were later quashed on appeal.
At least forty children had claimed they were sexually abused by Brother Hallett.
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