AUSTRALIA
The Guardian
Australian Associated Press
Thursday 8 September 2016
The leader of the Marist Brothers in Australia has publicly acknowledged a 13-year-old Newcastle boy was probably sexually abused before his suicide more than 40 years ago.
Andrew Nash went to Marist Brothers high school at Hamilton where, the royal commission has heard, boys were groped in class, abused in a chapel and raped in an office.
The boy, who died in 1974, was in the daily care of two since-convicted paedophiles known as Brother Romuald and Brother Dominic, the royal commission has been told.
“I want to acknowledge today in public that I accept on behalf of the Marist Brothers that all the evidence points to Andrew having been sexually abused,” Australian Provincial Brother Peter Carroll told the sex abuse royal commission on Thursday.
“I express admiration for the way they [Andrew’s] family have summoned the courage to give evidence this week.”
Andrew’s 90-year-old mother, Audrey Nash, has testified she thinks Andrew was abused by Brother Romuald, whose real name is Francis Cable.
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