AUSTRALIA
Gold Coast Bulletin
NRL great Matthew Johns has been moved to share his own dark past as a student in the Catholic Church education system.
The popular broadcaster was inspired to share stories from his upsetting past by the evidence reported by the royal commission into the Catholic Churches’ response to child sexual abuse.
The host of Triple M’s Grill Team said he saw regular cases of child abuse during his time at Maitland’s All Saints College – St Peter’s — a formerly Marist Brothers run school from 1898 to 1984.
He said students celebrated the day the college was no longer managed by Marist Brothers educators.
“I didn’t see anything, as far as child abuse, of a sexual nature,” Johns told Triple M.
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