CathNews
February 16, 2009
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Lawyers have called on other victims of convicted Sydney Marist Brother Ross Francis Murrin who is awaiting sentence on a sexual abuse charge to come forward.
The Australian reports that Murrin, 53, taught with the order for 26 years and is already serving a jail term for abusing eight primary school boys in 1974 at the Marist Daceyville school in Sydney's east.
He will be sentenced next month in the NSW District Court after pleading guilty to the latest charge of sexually abusing a boy in his care at St Gregory's College in Campbelltown, in Sydney's southwest, in the mid-1980s.
The Weekend Australian says it has been told more alleged victims have come forward, claiming the Marist Brother also abused them while he taught at a Marist college in Cairns.
Porters Lawyers principal Jason Parkinson, who acted for the St Gregory's victim, has called for students and teachers at the school in Cairns, St Augustine's - where Murrin taught before being transferred to St Gregory's - to come forward.
Mr Parkinson has launched actions for damages against the trustees of the Marist Brothers, key Marist officials and the Catholic Church Insurance office on behalf of the St Gregory's victim.
Marist Brothers spokesman Alexis Turton said yesterday he had already released a statement apologising to Murrin's victims.
Murrin was an 18 year old teacher when he indecently assaulted the eight boys aged between nine and 11 at Daceyville.
He pleaded guilty last year to the 1974 offences; the NSW District Court was told that the abuse often happened in the classroom when Murrin asked students to sit on his lap in front of the class. Murrin also admitted to the court he had molested other children, offences for which he had not been charged.
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