Sex abuse probe widens into Victorian Catholic school

AUSTRALIA
Herald Sun

JON KAILA HERALD SUN FEBRUARY 25, 2015

DETECTIVES investigating an employee at St Patrick’s College in Sale over the sexual assault of students have now widened their probe after receiving information other employees were involved.

Sano Taskforce detectives said they had received many calls from new victims and received complaints of child abuse at the Catholic school in the 1970s and 80s involving “a number of other former school employees.”

“Previously investigators were focusing their attentions on one offender, but have since received complaints against a number of other former school employees,” Victoria Police spokeswoman Leonie Johnson said.

“The new complaints were made by male students aged between nine and 16 at the time of the incidents when they attended the boys only boarding school.”

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