AUSTRALIA
The Australian
DAN BOX THE AUSTRALIAN DECEMBER 17, 2013
THE leader of a Catholic religious order failed to pass on allegations that one of his colleagues had sexually abused children to either the police or to the school where he knew the brother was teaching.
The former Sydney provincial of the Marist Brothers, Alexis Turton, told the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse that he chose not to take action, despite the cleric having personally admitted to his crimes.
Documents tendered to the commission show Brother Turton was aware of several allegations made against the second cleric, Raymond Foster, during the 1990s, including that “he enjoyed watching people abuse themselves and masturbate.”
These described alleged abuse committed when Foster was teaching at a school in far-north Queensland during the 1950s, the commission heard.
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