AUSTRALIA
The Guardian (UK)
Australian Associated Press
theguardian.com, Monday 16 June 2014
Even after a paedophile teacher confessed to the father of a boy who had taken his own life that he had molested him, the Marist Brothers did not go to police, a royal commission has heard.
John Holdsworth, who oversaw the primary school in North Queensland where Gregory Sutton, later jailed for 67 counts of child sexual abuse, taught in the 1970s, has told the inquiry in Canberra he was not concerned by Sutton’s behaviour at the time.
Holdsworth, the then community superior, said he could not recall the principal of the primary school, Denis Doherty, raising concerns about Sutton’s behaviour in 1974.
Doherty – a Marist Brother at the time – gave evidence on Monday at the royal commission into child sexual abuse that he had complained to the superior about Sutton’s “unprofessional” behaviour.
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