AUSTRALIA
The Guardian (UK)
Australian Associated Press
theguardian.com, Friday 13 June 2014
The former headmaster of Marist College Canberra told the child abuse royal commission he believed one of his teachers when he brushed aside an allegation of sexual assault because Marist brothers are meant to tell the truth.
Terence Heinrich said he approached John Chute, also known as Brother Kostka, after the father of a student complained Chute had “interfered” with his son.
When Chute said the allegation was just a misunderstanding, Heinrich said he believed him.
“That’s the way we should be, that’s the way we are – to be true and honest,” Heinrich told the royal commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse on Friday.
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