AUSTRALIA
Newcastle Herald
IAN KIRKWOOD
8 Sep 2016
THE chairman of the Royal Commisison, Justice Peter McClellan, says one of his inquiry’s final case studies will look at “why this has happened” in the Catholic Church and elsewhere.
Justice McClellan was questioning the current head of the Marist Brothers in Australia, Brother Peter Carroll.
Justice McClellan said: “You may not know, but one of the final hearings of the commission will look at the question of ‘why’, in an endeavour to understand in the Australian context why this has happened, and not just in the Catholic Church, we hasten to add, but in other parts of societ, which of course the commission has discussed in its various case studies.”
The pre-lunch session of this final day of Maitland-Newcastle Catholic hearings began with Brother Peter reading a prepared statement apologising to the family of Andrew Nash, who took his own life at the age of 13 in 1974
Brother Peter said “all the evidence indicates” that Andrew Nash was sexually abused, and that this evidence also pointed to him taking his own life.
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