AUSTRALIA
Sky News
Allegations of sexual abuse at a Catholic school in Sydney’s south have been passed to police by a lawyers’ group calling for a royal commission into the scandal-plagued church.
The Australian Lawyers Alliance (ALA) on Wednesday forwarded NSW police a complaint against a teacher at St Patrick’s College, Sutherland, who allegedly ‘sexually and indecently’ assaulted a pupil between 1976 and 1977.
ALA NSW spokesman Andrew Morrison says an internal investigation into the incident by the church was aborted in 2011.
‘This is the first (investigation) I’ve seen where the process was stopped part of the way through, and the inference there is to protect members of the clergy,’ Dr Morrison told AAP.
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