AUSTRALIA
The Examiner
By CALLA WAHLQUIST
Nov. 18, 2012
THE church organisation that ran Burnie’s Marist Regional College when students were sexually abused is preparing to be called before the royal commission, the head of the Marist Fathers has said.
“I’m expecting the royal commission to be held all over Australia, and that when the Tasmanian part of it is held there will be a requirement for the Marist Fathers to participate,” Marist provincial Paul Cooney said.
“Certainly, we will participate in any way that we are asked to.”
Two Marist priests who taught at the school around the 1970s were charged in 2004 with sexually abusing students in their rooms at the school. Both men were convicted and have served time in jail.
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