AUSTRALIA
The Canberra Times
Vice-principal suspected Marist Brother Gregory Sutton was abusing students but did not tell police
June 12, 2014
David Ellery
Reporter for The Canberra Times
Margaret O’Grady did not report her fears Brother Gregory Sutton was abusing children at St Carthage’s Primary School in Lismore to the police, while she was vice-principal, because she had already alerted church authorities.
Ms O’Grady told Thursday’s hearing of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, she had concluded there was a likelihood Sutton was abusing students after reading an entry in the teaching diary he kept on his desk.
But as mandatory reporting had not taken effect, she had put all her concerns and evidence in the hands of the Catholic Education Office.
Ms O’Grady, and another teacher, had decided to check the diary while investigating Sutton’s unexplained absence after a school camp.
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