AUSTRALIA
Broken Rites

By a Broken Rites researcher (article updated 18 June 2014)

The Marist Brothers sent a paedophile Brother (Gregory Joseph Sutton) away from Australia immediately after learning that he was being investigated by police, the national child-abuse Royal Commission has been told.

Brother Greg Sutton (born 19 March 1951) was sent by the Marist headquarters (in Sydney) to teach primary school children, from the early 1970s until the late 1980s, in Catholic schools in Queensland, New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory.

In June 2014, the Royal Commission began holding a two-weeks public hearing (Case Study 13) which includes the question of how the Marist Brothers administration responded (or failed to respond) to the crimes of Brother Gregory Sutton, plus another Marist (Brother John “Kostka” Chute).

The public hearing was told that Gregory Sutton was finally convicted in New South Wales in 1996 on 67 charges…