Alleged paedophile should have been questioned: Royal Commission hear

AUSTRALIA
Sydney Morning Herald

July 13, 2016

Rachel Browne
Social Affairs Reporter

An alleged sexual predator who left Australia following claims he abused three children with disability in his care should have been the subject of a thorough police investigation, a royal commission has heard.

The disability support worker from the Mater Dei School in Camden left Australia for the UK 25 years ago and has not returned, according to evidence before the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.

The commission heard no action was taken against the man, given the pseudonym CID, because he had resigned from the school.

A district director with the Department of Family and Community Services and former police officer told the public inquiry CID should have been interviewed by the authorities.

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