AUSTRALIA
The Courier
By Melissa Cunningham
Dec. 9, 2015
A Former St Patrick’s College student has told an inquiry of a culture of depraved sexual abuse and brutality which existed inside the school during the 1970s.
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse heard from victim BWF on Tuesday.
He told the hearing how he attempted to seek help from the Catholic Church after his younger brother BWG was brutally bashed and molested by disgraced brother Edward Dowlan in 1973.
His evidence sparked more allegations about Cardinal George Pell’s intricate knowledge of abuse at the school.
“I went to the presbytery on the corner of Sturt Street and Dawson Street to seek out Father George Pell,” he said. “He was a well-known influential priest in the area and I wanted someone of authority outside of the school to know what was happening there and somebody who would be able to do something about it.”
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