AUSTRALIA
Canberra Times
Daniel Burdon
A man has told an inquiry how he was sexually abused by three Marist brothers, including a brother who later taught at St Edmund’s in Canberra, over years at a Newcastle school.
The man, known as CNQ, told the inquiry his principal at the Newcastle school put his hands up and said “there’s nothing I can do” when he reported being touched.
The witness said he was first abused by Brother Dominic, whose real name is Darcy O’Sullivan, within a month of starting at Marist Brothers High School at Hamilton in 1977.
The royal commission is examining how Maitland-Newcastle Catholic authorities dealt with allegations levelled at Brother Dominic, Brother Patrick and Brother Romuald, whose real name is Francis Cable.
Cable, who was understood to have molested up to 11 children in Newcastle, later taught at St Edmund’s in Canberra between 1979 and 1989.
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