AUSTRALIA
Canberra Times
Megan Gorrey
Fresh claims of historical child sex abuse have emerged against former Marist College Canberra teacher Brother ‘Kostka’ Chute, a court has heard.
John William Chute, 84, was last year committed to stand trial in the ACT Supreme Court for allegedly sexually abusing boys at the Pearce college in the 1980s.
Chute, also known as Brother Kostka, was among four men police charged as part of an ongoing investigation into historical child sex abuse, mostly on boys younger than 16, in ACT schools.
He faces six counts of indecent assault and two acts of indecency for offences allegedly committed against two students over several years from 1980. He has yet to formally enter pleas to the charges.
Lawyer Greg Walsh signalled at Chute’s committal in August he would make an application that his client was unfit to plead, noting he had been found unfit to plead to separate charges in the NSW District Court.
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