AUSTRALIA
Sydney Morning Herald
July 22 2016
Rachel Browne
The family of a boy who was allegedly molested by a staff member at a Catholic school in Sydney’s south-west was asked to pay thousands of dollars in school fees after the child left the institution, according to evidence before a royal commission.
The inquiry heard the alleged perpetrator was allowed to resign from the Mater Dei School for children with intellectual disabilities, despite being suspected of sexually abusing two other students in his care.
Evidence before the commission is that the staff member, given the pseudonym CID, raped a 14-year-old girl, shared his bed with a teenage boy and sexually molested an eight-year-old boy with Down syndrome.
All the students were boarding at the college in 1990s, according to evidence before the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
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