AUSTRALIA
ABC News
March 10, 2020
By Nicole Mills and Steven Schubert
The principal of a Catholic school in country Victoria has praised the “unbelievably courageous” child sexual abuse survivors who brought a former teacher to justice for his crimes.
Warning: This article contains a description of child sexual abuse.
Trinity College Colac principal Paul Clohesy attended the court hearings of former teacher Kevin Wilmore Myers, who pleaded guilty to 12 charges involving nine victims spanning from the 1980s to 90s.
Myers was sentenced in the County Court to 15 years in jail for the historical child sexual abuse offences.
Myers, now aged 74, worked as a science teacher at Trinity College Colac, where he met most of his victims.
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