AUSTRALIA
Sky News
A list of 154 Marist Brothers who are accused of or proven to have abused children over 25 years, has been handed to the Royal Commission in Newcastle.
The organisation’s former professional standards director, Brother Alexis Turton, noted he was aware that 10 of the people on the list, which was generated from data spanning from 1980 to 2015, had admitted to offences.
He also said he talked to 52 of them over a period of about 17 years as a provincial from 1989 to 2005 and in his professional standards role from 2002 to 2012.
‘There were a few cases of excessive physical abuse,’ he told the Royal Commission into Instiutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse on Tuesday.
‘But the great majority were sexual abuse.’
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