A History of Abuse

Stock & Land
November 14, 2012

http://sl.farmonline.com.au/news/metro/national/general/a-history-of-abuse/2633855.aspx

Archdiocese of Perth Gerard William Dick was sentenced in 1995 to 3½ years jail for 10 incidents of indecently dealing with boys aged between eight and 10 at a Christian Brothers' orphanage in Western Australia.

Diocese of Bunbury Adrian Richard Van Klooster pleaded guilty to four counts of indecently dealing with children under the age of 13 and was found with child pornography on his computer.

St Andrew's Hostel A former hostel warden at St Andrew's Hostel in Katanning from the 1970s to early 1990s, DJK, is serving his second jail term for abusing 11 boys.

WA government

Children's homes The WA government confirmed 22 government-run institutions were named by child victims of abuse lodged under the Redress WA scheme.

Fairbridge farm More than 200 child migrants who were among those sent to Pinjarra's Fairbridge farm school for child migrants, between 1930 and 1981, have been awarded more than $1.1 million.

Swan Valley Nyungah Camp In February 2008, the Aboriginal patriarch who ruled Perth's Swan Valley Nyungah Camp, Robert Bropho, was sentenced to three years' jail for five counts of unlawful carnal knowledge of a girl under 13 in 1990 and 1991.

SOUTH AUSTRALIA

Catholic/Anglican

Catholic Church in South Australia defends one of its priests, who was previously an Anglican before being ordained in 1995, against alleged incidents 35 years ago.

TASMANIA

Catholic

Former Anglican archdeacon

Louis Daniels pleads guilty to 13 counts of interfering with young boys between 1973 and 1993.

Anglican

Church offers compensation to woman whose claims of child sexual abuse against a priest brought down the governor-general Peter Hollingworth.

ACT

Catholic

Canberra Marist College In February 2008, a teacher at Marist College Canberra, Brother John William Chute, pleaded guilty to 11 charges of indecently assaulting students of the college during the 1980s.