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Former Marist College students sue Catholic Church over historical sexual abuse allegations
Four former students of a Catholic secondary school in Tasmania’s north-west are suing the church over historical sexual abuse allegations involving a former international cricket umpire convicted for sex offences two decades ago.
Key points:
- Multiple students allege Steve Randell sexually abused them at Burnie’s Marist College
- Five former staff members associated with the Marist College in Burnie have been convicted of historical sex offences
- The four women are amongst the first to sue the Catholic church over the historical sexual abuse allegations at the college
The women all attended the Marist Regional College in Burnie in the early 1980s, where Stephen “Steve” Grant Randell was employed as a teacher.
Randell was sentenced to four years…
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