AUSTRALIA
The West Australian
AAP
ANNETTE BLACKWELL
February 17, 2014
An online petition calling on the Catholic Archbishop of Adelaide to settle a 12-year legal battle with parents of profoundly disabled children who were abused at a church school has attracted more than 60,000 signatures in five days.
The petition was started by Peter Mitchell, the father of one of the boys who attended St Ann’s Special School in Adelaide from 1986 to 1991.
It was 10 years later that Mr Mitchell and other parents discovered what had happened to their children.
The former bus driver at the school, Brian Perkins, was arrested in 2001 and later jailed for 10 years.
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