AUSTRALIA
Canberra Times
Christopher Knaus and Ian Kirkwood
A Marist Brothers principal who failed to report now-notorious paedophile Francis “Romuald” Cable to police has been labelled a “coward” and a “liar” after claiming he could not remember visiting the home of a student who had hung himself.
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse is currently examining the response of the Marist Brothers to abuse reports against three brothers, including Brother Romuald, working in the Hunter.
Brother Romuald’s case is closely linked to Canberra.
He arrived in the ACT to teach at St Edmund’s College from 1979 to 1989, after committing heinous and cruel acts of abuse against at least 19 victims in Marist Brothers schools in Sydney and Newcastle.
Brother ‘Romuald’ among three Marist brothers alleged to have abused children in Newcastle
He came to St Edmund’s despite being the subject of complaints to two principals during his time with the Marist Brothers.
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