AUSTRALIA
ABC News
BY COURT REPORTER CANDICE MARCUS, STAFF
March 17, 2014
The mother of an intellectually disabled boy abused by paedophile bus driver Brian Perkins has broken down on the witness stand at a royal commission hearing in Adelaide.
The woman’s son was one of many intellectually disabled boys molested by Perkins while they were students of St Ann’s Special School, run by the Catholic Church.
Perkins was not jailed until more than a decade after the abuse, and died in jail in 2009.
He already had a criminal record for sexual abuse when he began working at St Ann’s Special School, and sexually abused up to 30 boys in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Many of the other parents whose children were molested by Perkins did not find out until years later, the inquiry was told.
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