AUSTRALIA
Newcastle Herald
By JOANNE McCARTHY June 13, 2015
A MARIST Brother who was jailed in 2001 for sexual intercourse with a 12-year-old boy, but remains a Marist Brother, is selling comic books and school resources for the order through its official Australian schools website.
Brother Terry Gilsenan was jailed for offences against the boy in the 1980s, but has been the order’s contact person for sales of the ‘‘Champagnat Comic Book’’, and ‘‘cards, posters and publications for your school or ministry’’, for an unknown period until this week.
He was a teacher at Hamilton Marist Brothers in 1995-96.
He is identified only as ‘‘Brother Terry’’ on the Marist Schools Australia website, but can be contacted directly on an email address, land line and mobile phone numbers that are available from the website.
Gilsenan’s email address is also listed as contact point for the ‘‘Champagnat Comic Book’’ about Marist Brothers founder, St Marcellin Champagnat, in a Marist Brothers newsletter advertisement in March.
Marist Brothers Provincial Brother Jeffrey Crowe this week defended the order’s decision to place a convicted child sex offender’s direct contact details on a Marist Schools Australia website, but it has outraged victims’ advocate Bob O’Toole and NSW Greens Justice spokesman David Shoebridge.
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