AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By David Marchese
The mother of a Newcastle teenager who killed himself more than 40 years ago has told the child abuse royal commission she believes a group of Marist Brothers were “looking for evidence” at her home after the death.
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse hearing into the Hunter region’s Catholic Church has shifted its focus to the Marist Brothers this week, hearing stories of abuse carried out over decades.
Audrey Nash has given evidence to the commission, describing her son Andrew as a “compliant” boy who initially enjoyed going to school at the Marist Brothers high school in Hamilton.
But in early 1974, Mrs Nash said Andrew’s behaviour changed after he returned from school late one night.
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