AUSTRALIA
ABC News
Allegations of sexual abuse at ACT institutions covering a period of more than 60 years are to be investigated under a new police operation.
In 2013, laws passed by the ACT Legislative Assembly recently removed the statute of limitations on historic abuse crimes.
Previously, victims had to report the offence within 12 months or it could not be prosecuted.
Operation Attest has now been set up to allow police to prosecute certain sexual offences allegedly committed between 1951 and 1985.
Former Marist Brother John ‘Kostka’ Chute was convicted of multiple counts of acts of indecency on children under the age of 16.
Last year the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse hearings in Canberra heard from some of Brother Kostka’s victims while examining the response of the Marist Brothers to allegations of child sexual abuse in schools across the ACT, New South Wales and Queensland.
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