AUSTRALIA
Herald Sun
BY ANNETTE BLACKWELL AAP DECEMBER 17, 2013
A MARIST brother who ended up working at one of Sydney’s most prestigious Catholic schools had possibly been abusing children since the 1950s, an inquiry has been told.
Brother Raymond Foster was teaching at St Joseph’s College, a secondary boarding school in Hunters Hill, in August 1994 even though there had been complaints about him starting in 1991.
The complaints between 1991 and 1994 included an allegation Br Foster had molested a boy when he was at St Augustine’s College, Cairns, in the 1950s.
Brother Alexis Turton, who was provincial of the Marist Brothers Sydney region until the mid-1990s, told the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse he had not taken action against Br Foster until Queensland police began an investigation in 1994 after a man accused the brother of molesting him when he was 13.
The man, identified as DG, attended a north Queensland Marist school in the 1970s.
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