AUSTRALIA
Sydney Morning Herald
A man who told an inquiry how he was sexually abused by three Marist brothers over years at a Newcastle school says his principal put his hands up and said “there’s nothing I can do” when he reported being touched.
The man, known as CNQ, told the inquiry 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.
He told the royal commission another brother put his hands in his pyjamas the following year, before Brother Patrick began committing sickening abuse in a classroom and chapel in 1980.
The royal commission heard CNQ punched Brother Patrick in the head on one occasion after being touched in class and later had a meeting with his mother and the school principal, Brother John.
“I told Brother John about Brother Patrick … putting his hand on my crotch and leg,” he told the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse on Monday.
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