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Daily Telegraph
Marist brother left diary on desk which revealed liaisons with young girl Royal Commission told
JANET FIFE-YEOMANS THE DAILY TELEGRAPH JUNE 12, 2014
WHEN Marist brother Gregory Sutton was caught out lying about taking an afternoon off school, a suspicious teacher looked in his school diary which he openly kept on his desk.
“Picked up (girl). What an afternoon. She is magnificent”, the former assistant principal of Lismore’s St Carthage’s primary school, Jan O’Grady, said she read in his diary.
His entry for the following day said: “I had a fight with (same girl) and we made up.”
Ms O’Grady has told the child sex abuse royal commission today that when she rang the Catholic Education Office, they suggested that Brother Sutton take a month off and then return to the school.
She said she was furious and almost hysterical and contacted the then former director of the Catholic Education for the Diocese of Lismore, John Kelly, and it was only then that Bother Sutton left the school.
Ten years later when Brother Sutton was tracked down in the US and extradited to NSW, he pleaded guilty to 67 counts of child sex assault including having sexual intercourse with the girl, then aged 10 or 11.
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