AUSTRALIA
Sydney Morning Herald
May 2, 2014
Aleisha Orr
Reporter, WA Today
A lawyer who defended the Christian Brothers against a class action over child sexual abuse has described the legal action as a “tsunami” that needed to be “managed”.
Carrolll & O’Dea partner Howard Harrison gave evidence to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse on Thursday and is expected to be questioned further on Friday.
Public hearings are being held in Perth in relation to sexual abuse at Christian Brothers run institutions in WA between the 1940s and 1960s.
Mr Harrison said when pressed that “some” members of the Order must have been aware of the abuse at the time of legal proceedings in the 1990s.
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