AUSTRALIA
NEWS.com.au
•Chief Court Reporter Sean Fewster
•From: AdelaideNow
•August 01, 2012
THE Catholic Church wants every medical record of seven intellectually disabled young people who were molested by a church volunteer, in order to fight million-dollar compensation claims, a court has heard.
Eight people abused, as children, by paedophile Brian Perkins have lodged civil claims against the church and St Ann’s Special School.
They have asked the District Court to award them damages because the school and church failed to protect them from Perkins’ predatory crimes.
Between 1987 and 1991 he video-taped, photographed and sexually assaulted 36 students at the Marion school, where he worked as a volunteer bus driver.
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