Former principal’s job in jeopardy over abuse scandal

AUSTRALIA
Queensland Times

Stuart Cumming 7th Mar 2014

FORMER Toowoomba Catholic school principal Terence Hayes’ job is in jeopardy as his bosses await findings from the Royal Commission into sex abuse.

Mr Hayes last month told the commission he had not referred information to police about teacher Gerard Vincent Byrnes, who raped and assaulted 13 children at a Toowoomba Catholic primary school.

A spokesman for Catholic Education in the Archdiocese of Brisbane yesterday confirmed Hayes was on leave from his position as a Year 7 teacher at St Eugene Catholic College in Burpengary.

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