AUSTRALIA
Brisbane Times
May 3, 2013
Patrick Caruana and Daniel Fogarty
AAP
The Christian Brothers say it was an “accident of history” that four pedophiles taught at a small Victorian school at the same time.
The Catholic order denies having a culture which encouraged pedophilia, despite confirming more than 200 cases of abuse in Victoria and that four of their members abused children at Ballarat’s St Alipius primary school in the 1970s.
The order’s deputy province leader, Brother Julian McDonald, said he had no explanation for why the pedophiles emerged at the same place.
“It’s certainly an accident of history,” he told a Victorian parliamentary inquiry on Friday.
“Was there a culture that encouraged that? I don’t believe there is evidence that there was.”
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