AUSTRALIA
Brisbane Times
A Catholic education director says his staff had the knowledge to deal with sexual abuse claims against a Queensland teacher, but did not apply it.
A royal commission in Brisbane has heard two Catholic education officers and the principal of a Queensland school learned of abuse claims against a teacher in 2007, but failed to act.
That teacher, Gerard Byrnes, was eventually jailed in 2010 after pleading guilty to 44 child sex charges involving 13 young girls.
Byrnes was allowed to continue working at the school after the first complaints surfaced, and went on to abuse other pupils.
Catholic education director John Borserio gave evidence on Friday to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
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