AUSTRALIA
The Guardian (UK)
Helen Davidson in Canberra
theguardian.com, Wednesday 11 June 2014
A man who repeatedly warned the Marist Brothers that one of their members, Brother Kostka Chute, had abused him and was still abusing other young students said he was ignored and given false promises that Chute would be kept away from children, the royal commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse has heard.
The 13th public hearing for the commission is examining the Marist Brothers order’s response to numerous allegations and complaints that two of its members were sexually abusing students for decades. It is known at least five men among their ranks abused children. Four were convicted and one took his own life shortly after confessing.
Greg Sutton and Kostka Chute were shifted from school to school across Queensland, New South Wales and the ACT throughout their teaching careers, despite – and in some cases because of – multiple complaints against them alleging child sexual abuse and inappropriate behaviour.
Sutton, who could be legally identified for the first time in 18 years from Tuesday, was convicted in 1996 after pleading guilty to 67 charges of sexual assault against 15 children. He was sentenced to 18 years in prison, with a minimum term of 12 years, and was released in 2008.
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