AUSTRALIA
The West Australian
Angela Pownall, The West Australian
Updated February 16, 2013
Former Perth Catholic schoolboys have revealed they were sexually abused by a Christian Brother who taught for 20 years at prestigious WA schools run by the religious order.
Three men have told _The Weekend West _they were molested, and in one case raped, by Brother Daniel Virgil McMahon when they were schoolboys.
A former teacher, who worked with McMahon at Aquinas College, said he complained about his behaviour at the school, yet McMahon continued working with, and abusing, children.
They want the case investigated by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
McMahon also taught at Trinity College, Christian Brothers College, Highgate, and St Patrick’s College in Geraldton before he began counselling children as the order’s vocations director. He moved to Tasmania in 1990, where he was ordained as a priest and lived until his death in May
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