AUSTRALIA
The Australian
Brisbane Archbishop Mark Coleridge and Toowoomba Bishop Robert McGuckin tell parents kids are safe from sex abuse at school
TANYA CHILCOTT THE COURIER-MAIL MARCH 05, 2014
CATHOLIC education officials admit their schooling system has been undermined in Queensland because of the way sexual abuse allegations were dealt with.
Brisbane Archbishop Mark Coleridge and Toowoomba Bishop Robert McGuckin have written to every school parent in their dioceses in an attempt to reassure them their children are protected at school.
It comes two weeks after the royal commission into child abuse heard shocking evidence of the abuse of 13 girls at a Toowoomba Catholic school as recently as the last decade.
The man who committed the crimes is now behind bars, but the commission heard allegations the school did not alert police to the abuse when it was first reported.
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