AUSTRALIA
The West Australian
BY THOMAS ORITI
January 23, 2014
A Marist Brother has denied accusations that he failed to act when a boy at the Queensland Catholic school he ran was sexually abused.
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse last month examined the experiences of four victims who have participated in the Towards Healing program established by the Catholic Church.
After a two-week public hearing in December, senior figures of the Marist Brothers Catholic order are now giving evidence in Sydney.
Brother Gerald Burns was the principal of St Augustine’s College in Cairns between 1976 and 1981.
During the same period a man known only as DK has told the inquiry he was abused by three other Marist Brothers at the college.
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