AUSTRALIA
Sky News
Friday, 13 June 2014
A labrador named Jason was part of a Marist brother’s plan to groom young boys, a royal commission has been told.
Former brother John Chute, also known as Brother Kostka, worked at Canberra’s Marist College between 1976 and 1990 and had the dog for some of that time, 1980s principal Terence Heinrich said.
‘Brother Kostka wasn’t the only brother who ever had a dog but certainly it was most unusual,’ Br Heinrich told a royal commission investigating institutional responses to child sexual abuse.
Lawyer Peter O’Brien, representing an abuse victim from the college, suggested the dog was used by Chute as part of ‘his pedophilic behaviour’.
‘It seems from what you recall that children were attracted to the dog,’ Mr O’Brien said to Heinrich.
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