AUSTRALIA
ABC – 7.30
[with video]
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Broadcast: 06/12/2012
Reporter: Chris Uhlmann
Provincial of the St John of God order, Brother Timothy Graham, joins 7.30 to address claims of abuse cover-ups levelled by a former nun of the order.
Transcript
CHRIS UHLMANN, PRESENTER: A short time ago I spoke with the Australian head of the Brothers of St John of God.
Brother Timothy Graham, welcome.
TIMOTHY GRAHAM, BROTHERS OF ST JOHN OF GOD: Thank you, Chris.
CHRIS UHLMANN: Can you imagine a worse crime that could be committed before the law or before your god than to sexually abuse an intellectually disabled child?
TIMOTHY GRAHAM: Absolutely not. I mean, …
CHRIS UHLMANN: And yet members of your order did that.
TIMOTHY GRAHAM: And I think we’re on the public record in the media over 20 years acknowledging that.
CHRIS UHLMANN: When did the order first become aware of the fact that it was taking place?
TIMOTHY GRAHAM: Complaints first started coming to us in about 1992.
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