AUSTRALIA
The Canberra Times
December 11, 2015
Christopher Knaus
Reporter for The Canberra Times.
Marist ignored allegations that a now notorious paedophile teacher was sexually abusing students, instead shuffling him between schools, in one case even promoting him to principal, and failing to refer complaints to police, the royal commission has found.
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse delivered its formal findings on the cases of Brother John Chute, also known as Brother Kostka, and another Marist brother, Gregory Sutton, on Friday.
The pair abused students for decades at a string of schools across Australia, including many at Marist College Canberra.
When allegations child molestation surfaced, they were handled woefully, with the brothers simply moved between schools, given warnings, or placed under “supervision”.
The failings allowed the pair to continue to access and abuse vulnerable children, the royal commission found.
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