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The former Bishop of Toowoomba, who sacked a principal and two Catholic education officers over their handling of child sexual abuse, is about to front an inquiry in Brisbane.
William Morris was the bishop of the Queensland diocese in December 2009 when the trio was sacked for their serious errors of judgment.
On Friday he’ll front the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, which is looking at how a primary school and Catholic education officials responded to abuse claims involving 13 young girls.
Teacher Gerard Byrnes was jailed for 10 years in 2010 after pleading guilty to 44 child sex charges involving the girls in 2007 and 2008.
The royal commission has already heard from the school’s former principal, Terence Hayes, who admitted his handling of the abuse claims amounted to gross incompetence.
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