AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By David Marchese
The former principal of a Marist Brothers high school in Newcastle has told the child abuse royal commission a notorious paedophile admitted to him he had abused children 40 years before he was charged.
After a week of evidence, the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse hearing into the Hunter region’s Catholic Church is now examining the response of the Marist Brothers to allegations of child sexual abuse.
Former principal of the Marist Brothers’ Hamilton school, Christopher Wade, admitted he should have done more to follow up child sexual abuse allegations levelled at teacher Francis Cable, known as Brother Romuald.
Brother Romuald was sentenced to 16 years’ jail last year after being convicted of dozens of child abuse charges.
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