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EOIN BLACKWELL AAP MAY 05, 2014
THE conviction of a Christian Brother who confessed to abusing “unknown” children prevented other men from coming forward to report he abused them, a royal commission has heard.
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has also heard bringing sexual assault allegations 40 years after they happened was considered an extraordinary thing in the 1990s.
Brother Dick was convicted and sentenced to three-and-a-half years jail in 1994 after he confessed to 10 counts of unlawfully and indecently assaulting five “unknown” boys under the age of 14.
The commission heard double jeopardy laws prevented other men who were abused as children by the Christian Brother from coming forward because it was not known if they were among the five he had been convicted of abusing.
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