Surviving brother shocked at abuse claims

By Colleen Egan
West Australian
June 15, 2014

https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/24240934/surviving-brother-shocked-at-abuse-claims/

Giving emotional testimony at royal commission hearings in April, former child migrant witnesses believed their alleged abusers were probably all dead.

The once-powerful Christian Brothers who ran institutions - young boys' guardians and, as several tearful men testified, their sadistic tormentors - were thought to be in the grave.

But _The Weekend West _ has discovered there is at least one surviving Brother who was never called to the witness box.

Brian Morgan, 82, was twice named in evidence by Maltese child migrants who were sent to Tardun farm school and orphanage. He was not accused of committing or being aware of sexual abuse.

Witness VG told the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse that then-Brother Morgan, with other Brothers, was involved in the bashing of a boy "until he could no longer stand".

Raphael Ellul testified about a beating of himself and his older brother and another incident when he had run away from Tardun and attempted to report sexual abuse by Brother Patrick Synan to the police at Mullewa.