AUSTRALIA
9 News
Jul 10, 2017
Catholic education officials were allegedly told of a teacher’s conviction for sexually assaulting boys before he was hired and appointed to a NSW school.
In an affidavit tendered to the child abuse royal commission, the teacher, known as GKI, said he admitted in 1974 to former Newcastle director Monsignor Vincent Dilley he’d been dismissed from the public education system over the 1962 conviction.
In a 2005 sworn affidavit, GKI also said he talked to Father Frank Coolahan, who he understood to soon be replacing Monsignor Dilley, and asked him whether he was aware of the conviction and dismissal.
“Yes,” GKI recalled Father Coolahan saying in the affidavit made public on Monday.
“Monsignor Dilley said: ‘ Yes, I am aware of that’.”
The affidavit was one of hundreds of documents relating to Catholic Church Insurance’s (CCI) knowledge of alleged perpetrators released by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse on Monday.
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