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By Katherine Fenech June 24, 2014
A FORMER Marist brother has told a royal commission hearing he had warned church officials a fellow brother was a possible child molester but was ignored.
The commission held a fortnight of public hearings in Canberra, looking at whether the church ignored repeated reports of abuse by two Marist Brothers, moving them to other schools.
One of the brothers, Gregory Sutton, taught at Campbelltown’s St Thomas More primary school in 1984, where he allegedly sexually assaulted two girls and a boy in his year 5 class.
Denis Doherty was principal of a North Queensland primary school in the 1970s, where Sutton also taught.
Mr Doherty said he had raised concerns about Sutton having “pet” students whom he favoured with the provincial of the order, Charles Howard, during an annual visit in 1976. But Mr Doherty said when he asked what would be done about Sutton he was told “none of your business”.
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