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Abuse Royal Commission: Paedophile priest Raymond Foster allowed to keep teaching job despite complaints
BY THOMAS ORITI – ABC
December 17, 2013
An inquiry into child sexual abuse within the Catholic Church has revealed a paedophile priest was allowed to continue teaching at a Sydney school, despite a number of complaints against him.
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse is examining the church’s responses to Raymond Foster and his victims.
The inquiry is focusing on the case of a man known to the Commission as DG, who says he was sexually abused by Foster between 1970 and 1973. He provided a statement to police in 1994.
It has heard that although Foster was stood down from the Hunters Hill school in 1994, similar complaints were made against him in relation to events dating back to the 1950s.
He had worked at St Augustine’s college in Cairns at the time.
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