AUSTRALIA
ABC News
South Australian Catholic schools will review their procedures after a damning report was handed down into the church’s employment of paedophile Brian Perkins.
About 30 intellectually disabled students were sexually abused by Perkins in the late 1980s and early ’90s at St Ann’s Special School at Marion, which is now closed but was run by the Catholic Education Office.
Perkins worked as a bus driver at the school between 1986 and 1991, and also undertook volunteer work, but it was not until 2003 that he was convicted of abusing three children.
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse on Thursday released its findings into the case, and identified a number of failings by the school, the police and Catholic Church.
It found the school did not comply with its own policies on volunteer supervision, and the school principal failed to report the initial allegations of abuse.
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