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Christian Brothers knew of sexual abuse at WA boys’ homes for four decades: Royal Commission report
EMILY MOULTON PERTHNOW
DECEMBER 19, 2014
FOR more than four decades the Christian Brothers’ Provincial Council knew of rampant sexual abuse at its WA boys homes, a major inquiry report has found.
The leaders of the Catholic order also failed to prevent further abuse from occurring at the WA institutions despite being aware of allegations.
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse today handed down its findings into the allegations of widespread sexual and physical abuse at Castledare Junior Orphanage, St Vincent’s Orphanage Clontarf, St Mary’s Agricultural School Tardun and the Bindoon Farm School.
The report found that from 1919 to the 1960s, the Christian Brothers’ Provincial Council knew of sexual abuse allegations against some of its Brothers in institutions run by the Christian Brothers around Australia.
It also found that from 1947 to 1968, leaders of the Catholic order failed to manage the four institutions to prevent further sexual, physical and emotional abuse of children living there.
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