AUSTRALIA
Daily Telegraph
Marist Brother child molester Gregory Joseph Sutton sent to US to live a new life, royal commission told
A MARIST Brother who admitted to child sexual abuse was sent overseas and told to stay there and “live a new life” when a warrant was issued for his arrest, an inquiry has heard.
Former Marist Brother and convicted paedophile Gregory Joseph Sutton admitted to abusing a schoolboy in a meeting with the boy’s father in mid-1989, the Royal Commission into Institutional Res-ponses to Child Sexual Abuse heard yesterday.
“He asked me if I did it. I said yes,” Sutton said.
A couple of weeks after the admission, Sutton met with Brother Alexis Turton, the Provincial, or head of the Marist order in Australia, and four days later was on a plane to the US, his ticket provided by the brotherhood.
Asked if Br Turton knew he had admitted to abusing the boy, Sutton said he did not verbally tell his superior but “I would say my body language, by looking at the ground or some such thing that, yes, I admit to it”.
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