AUSTRALIA
ABC – The World Today
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The Victorian Parliamentary Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse has been told the first alleged instance of abuse by a Christian Brother in Victoria was in 1934, but it wasn’t reported until 65 years later. The inquiry has been hearing testimony this morning from the Christian Brothers religious order. It ran some of the institutions where abuse was reported in Victoria, including St Alipius Primary School in Ballarat, and St Vincent’s orphanage.
Transcript
ASHLEY HALL: The Victorian Parliamentary Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse has heard that the first alleged instance of abuse in that state by a Christian Brother was in 1934, though it wasn’t reported for 65 years.
The inquiry has been hearing this morning from the Christian Brothers religious order.
The order ran some of the institutions where abuse has been reported including at St Alipius Primary School in Ballarat and at St Vincent’s orphanage.
Madeleine Morris has been monitoring the inquiry and she joins us now from Melbourne.
Madeleine, much of the questioning this morning related to whether the Christian Brothers had covered up for a number of paedophile brothers who worked in its institutions in Victoria. Just remind us, first of all, about who some of those brothers were.
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