More former staff implicated in sex abuse claims at St Patrick’s College

AUSTRALIA
The Age

February 25, 2015

Marissa Calligeros

The sex abuse scandal at St Patrick’s College in Sale has widened, with police investigations focusing on more former employees of the school.

Detectives from the child-exploitation Sano Taskforce revealed last week that they were investigating claims of sexual abuse at the former boarding school in south-east Victoria in the 1970s and 1980s.

Since then, the taskforce has received “many calls” relating to new complaints of child abuse at the Catholic school that implicate a number of former school employees.

Previously investigators were focusing their attention on one offender.

Detectives interviewed an 87-year-old Sale man last Thursday, but he was later released pending further enquiries.

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