AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By Nicole Chettle
A man who was sexually abused as a child at an exclusive Sydney Catholic boarding school said he would have preferred for all of the matters against his assailant to have been heard at the same time, an inquiry has heard.
The survivor, known as CDR, told the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in Sydney he was abused in 1984 at St Joseph’s College, but wished his matter had gone to trial with five other abuse victims.
Counsel assisting the commission Jeremy Kirk SC told the hearing Brother John Denis Maguire was found not guilty on 17 counts of child sexual abuse, after six trials and two retrials in 2003 and 2004.
Maguire was later found guilty of child sex offences against another boy and in March 2015 he was sentenced to three years’ jail, with a non-parole period of one year and nine months.
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