AUSTRALIA
The West Australian
BY MARGARET SCHEIKOWSKI
March 24, 2014
The Archbishop of Adelaide has agreed the Catholic church’s response to sexual abuse claims at a special school should have begun about a decade earlier than it did.
Archbishop Philip Wilson told the royal commission he would have expected his predecessor to have put in place processes in 1993 which he himself instigated after learning of the abuse in late 2001.
“If the matter was known it should have been dealt with in all the formal ways that are required,” he told the commission on Monday.
It is investigating Adelaide’s St Ann’s Special School and its bus driver Brian Perkins, who sexually abused intellectually disabled children between 1986 and 1991.
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