AUSTRALIA
The Guardian (UK)
Australian Associated Press
theguardian.com, Thursday 3 July 2014
The national head of the Marist Brothers says the failings of its leadership are to blame for the crimes of two paedophile brothers across three decades.
In a public letter to all members of the Catholic order, the provincial head in Australia, Jeffrey Crowe, has again apologised to child abuse victims.
Crowe said that after listening to recent royal commission hearings into how the crimes of brothers John Kosta Chute and Gregory Sutton were dealt with in the 1960s, 70s and 80s, it was clear leadership inaction at the time was responsible.
Both men were jailed for abusing children in NSW, Queensland and ACT schools.
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