AUSTRALIA
The Canberra Times
June 16, 2014
David Ellery
Reporter for The Canberra Times.
A former Marist Brother told his superiors Gregorý Sutton was a possible child molester decades before his crimes were exposed.
Denis Doherty told the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse on Monday he had been told to “mind your own business” in 1976 when he asked what was being done about the now disgraced former Marist Brother.
Mr Doherty said he had been very upset to learn Sutton had been charged with numerous counts of sex abuse in 1993.
“I was extremely angry that I had told the brothers in the 1970s and they did nothing and Greg went on to do some of the most dreadful things,” he said in response to questions from Simeon Beckett, the counsel assisting the commission.
Mr Doherty said he first met Sutton in 1973 when he arrived at the north Queensland school where he was teaching.
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