AUSTRALIA
Perth Now
MARTY SILK AAP FEBRUARY 23, 2014
THE bishop who sacked three men after a pedophilia scandal at a Catholic primary school in Queensland is set to give evidence at an inquiry on Monday.
Former Toowoomba Bishop William Morris is due to give his version of the events leading up to the jailing of pedophile teacher Gerard Byrnes in 2010.
Byrnes raped, molested and savagely bullied 13 schoolgirls in his Queensland classroom between 2007 and 2008.
A principal and two senior Catholic education officers were first told of sex abuse allegations against Byrnes more than a year before his arrest.
But all three men remained silent, police were never told and Byrnes sexually abused more girls.
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