Dated Law Allows Molester Daniel Hayman to Escape Jail
By Lema Samandar
A MAGISTRATE has been forced to allow a child molester to escape jail because of a dated law, despite what he described as the “catastrophic” impact on the victim. Daniel Hayman, 50, a Jewish orthodox man who pleaded guilty to indecently assaulting a child under his authority at a Yeshiva camp in 1987 or 1988, received a 19-month suspended sentence. Then aged 24, the camp leader drove the 14-year-old boy from the Stanwell Tops camp to isolated bushland where he sexually assaulted the teen, Downing Centre Local Court heard yesterday. Magistrate David Williams said he had to sentence Hayman under 1980s law, but if he was to punish him under today’s legislation he would “not hesitate in sending him to jail”. He described the assault’s impact as catastrophic after hearing a victim’s impact statement. Hayman was last month acquitted of a similar offence against a 12-year-old girl in the 1980s due to a “legal oddity”. During sentencing, Hayman kept his head down and read a religious text. SCHOOL IGNORED SICK FIEND’S CONFESSION Jessica Marszalek A SELF-CONFESSED paedophile was allowed to teach for 40 years during which he allegedly assaulted nearly 50 boys despite repeatedly admitting his actions to superiors. The royal commission into child sexual abuse is sitting in Canberra to consider whether the Marist Brothers ignored repeated reports and suspicions of abuse by two long-serving brothers, choosing instead to move them on to new schools. It heard Brother John Chute taught from 1952 to 1993 in NSW and the ACT, despite admitting to four cases of abuse when children came forward between 1960 and 1972. Despite these admissions, he went on to teach for 17 years at Marist College Canberra, which 39 of his 48 alleged victims attended. The commission was told he abused boys in his office, a store room, at a film night, in a pie wagon and sometimes in front of other students. One former student, Damian De Marco, described how he fought off a sexual attack by Chute in a store room in Year 7 and reported it in Year 12 out of concern for other potential victims. After being told Chute had denied the attack and nothing would be done, he again reported the abuse to the school after he graduated, before eventually going to police with the allegations. The commission heard from two victims of former Brother Gregory Sutton, who taught in Queensland, NSW and the ACT from 1973 to 1987 and was moved to new schools when teachers or parents raised concerns. The women told of their lengthy sexual abuse by their Year 5 teacher at St Thomas More primary in Campbelltown, NSW. Sutton is alleged to have abused 21 boys and girls, and was sent for counselling in Canada. He left Marist Brothers and was a headmaster in the US before being extradited back to Australia. He pleaded guilty to 67 counts of child sexual assault and sentenced to 18 years’ jail in 1996. Chute served two years’ jail for 19 counts of child sexual abuse.
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