AUSTRALIA
Courier Mail
BY MARGARET SCHEIKOWSKI AAP MARCH 20, 2014
A SENIOR Catholic education officer has apologised to the victims of “shocking and appalling” sexual abuse carried out by a bus driver who worked at an Adelaide special school.
Allan Dooley also said the school principal’s handling of the initial complaints in 1991 was “unacceptable”.
Mr Dooley, former director of Catholic Education in the Archdiocese of Adelaide, was giving evidence on Thursday at the royal commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse.
It is investigating Adelaide’s St Ann’s Special School and its bus driver and volunteer, Brian Perkins, who sexually abused intellectually disabled boys between 1986 and 1991.
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