AUSTRALIA
The Guardian (UK)
Australian Associated Press
theguardian.com, Tuesday 17 June 2014
The former superior of a NSW Marist Brothers community and deputy principal of a school for 600 students has told an inquiry that in the 1980s he did not associate child sexual abuse with crime.
Brother Anthony Hunt was head of the Lismore Marist community to which Gregory Sutton, who was later jailed for sexually assaulting 15 children, was attached from 1985 to 1987.
Hunt was also deputy principal of the Marist Trinity College in Lismore which had 600 students at the time.
On Tuesday he gave evidence at the royal commission into child sexual abuse that although concerns were raised with him about the behaviour of Sutton at St Carthage’s primary school, he left it to the school to deal with.
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