AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By Ewan Gilbert
Updated Thu 12 Jun 2014
Former Canberra Marist College headmaster Brother Terence Heinrich has denied he was involved in covering up allegations of child sexual abuse during the 1980s.
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse is examining the response of the Marist Brothers to allegations of child sexual abuse in schools across the ACT, New South Wales and Queensland.
Brother Heinrich today admitted under cross-examination that dealing with allegations secretly and internally was the way it was.
Brother Heinrich was the headmaster at Marist College from 1983 to 1989, while Brother Kostka Chute was sexually abusing boys at the school.
In 1996 Brother Kostka was convicted of abusing six boys and sentenced to two years in jail.
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