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By Miranda Forster
March 2, 2016
A Christian Brother used his position to routinely sexually abuse boys in his care under the guise of tuition or discipline, court documents show.
William Peter Standen, also known as David Standen – the former principal of Sydney’s St Mary’s Cathedral College – pleaded guilty on Wednesday to indecent assaults on seven boys during his time at St Patrick’s College in Goulburn.
The 66-year-old has previously pleaded guilty to indecent assaults or acts on 11 other boys at the school.
They occurred when he was a teacher and dormitory master at St Patrick’s in the late 1970s and early 1980s, according to agreed statements of facts tendered in Sydney’s District Court.
The statements detail a pattern of abuse in which Standen’s victims – mostly boys aged 12 – recalled being summoned to his quarters after “lights out” under the guise of discipline or tuition.
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