AUSTRALIA
Illawarra Mercury
June 11, 2014
The Marist Brothers have paid out $6.84 million in compensation to 38 former students who were sexually abused by John William Chute, who is also known as Brother Kostka.
Counsel assisting the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, Simeon Beckett, said payments averaged $178,000 but those made through Towards Healing were substantially less.
Chute is now living in the community in NSW.
The royal commission heard on Tuesday that allegations of sexual abuse were made against him as early as 1960 and that he had admitted to “inappropriate touching” while at Marcellin College in Randwick.
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