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Christian Brother Parker ‘admitted abuse’ at Bindoon institution, Royal Commission hears
A CHRISTIAN Brother who sexually abused boys in his care in Western Australia admitted his conduct to the order in 1953 but was left to his own devices, an inquiry has heard.
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse is hearing testimony from the order’s former provincial leader in WA and SA, Brother Anthony Shanahan.
The commission heard a man known as Brother Parker came clean to his superiors about his struggle with the order’s “second vow” of celibacy in 1953.
A 1953 visitation report from Bindoon noted Br Parker as being “still beset by his own inner troubles about which he spoke with complete candour”.
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