AUSTRALIA
Australian Teacher Magazine
BRISBANE, Feb 20 – The Catholic Church has accused an education officer of trying to shift the blame over a teacher pedophilia scandal.
Former Catholic education officer Christopher Fry gave evidence at the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in Brisbane on Thursday.
Fry failed to report allegations of pedophilia against teacher Gerard Byrnes to police in 2007.
He said he hadn’t received sufficient training about his obligations to report abuse and that the Catholic Education Office was understaffed at the time.
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