AUSTRALIA
Maitland Mercury
June 10, 2014
A victim of child sexual abuse at the hands of a Marist Brother recalls turning around a crucifix worn by her abuser “so Jesus wouldn’t see what was going on”.
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, sitting in Canberra, is looking at whether the church turned its back on scores of victims by failing to act on numerous reports of inappropriate behaviour.
In 1984 and 1985, Brother Gregory Sutton worked as a teacher at St Thomas Moore School at Campbelltown in southwest Sydney.
A woman identified only as ADM gave evidence to the commission on Tuesday, relating to her time as a Year 5 student at the school.
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