AUSTRALIA
Cairns Post
JESSICA MARSZALEK THE CAIRNS POST JUNE 11, 2014
TWO former teachers from a North Queensland school and at least two ex-students will be witnesses at a royal commission into child sexual abuse.
The inquiry is sitting in Canberra to consider whether the Marist Brothers ignored repeated reports and suspicions of abuse by two long-serving brothers, choosing instead to move them on to new schools.
The 16-person witness list for the 10-day commission includes a former teacher and a former principal of a Marist Brothers school in North Queensland.
It also lists two former students of the school, which has not been named.
The inquiry yesterday heard that a self-confessed paedophile was allowed to teach in NSW and the ACT for 40 years during which he allegedly assaulted nearly 50 boys despite repeatedly admitting his actions to superiors.
It heard Brother John Chute taught from 1952 to 1993, despite admitting to four cases of abuse when children came forward between 1960 and 1972. Despite these admissions, he went on to teach for 17 years at Marist College Canberra, which 39 of his 48 alleged victims attended.
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