AUSTRALIA
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A pedophile Marist brother attended and probably organised the funeral of a young man he had molested as a boy, an inquiry has been told.
The man’s family later learned of the link between their son’s suicide and the fact he had been molested by Gregory Sutton when he was just eight or nine and attending a Marist Brothers primary school in North Queensland in the 1970s.
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse was told on Monday Sutton, who has since served 12 years in jail for sexually assaulting boys, offered to arrange the funeral of the boy, referred to as ADO, who committed suicide in 1989.
The former brother was later confronted by the father of ADO and confessed he had molested him.
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