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Sex abuse royal commission finds Catholic church failed to act against Brisbane brother over abuse complaints
Protocols at a Brisbane private school put in place after several complaints against a Marist brother in the 1990s were “inadequate and ineffective”, the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has found.
Key points:
- Two sex abuse allegations against Brother Patrick were reported to police
- Brother Patrick worked at Brisbane’s Marist College Ashgrove from 1989 until his retirement in 2001
- Catholic authorities were aware of abuse allegations from 1991
Thomas Butler, known as Brother Patrick, had been teaching at Brisbane’s Marist College Ashgrove for three years — after decades teaching in various schools in New South Wales — when Catholic church authorities were made aware of historical sexual abuse complaints…
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