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Daily Telegraph
Former Christian Brothers leader says NSW police told the order to transfer brother or they would arrest him
JANET FIFE-YEOMANS THE DAILY TELEGRAPH MAY 07, 2014
A FORMER leader of the Christian Brothers has claimed the NSW police told the order to transfer a paedophile brother interstate or they would arrest him.
Brother Julian McDonald, who was the leader of the NSW and Victorian province from 1990, said he found the request “frankly incredible”.
He told the child sex abuse royal commission that it had happened under the officership of his predecessor and the brother had been transferred to houses with no contact with children.
“Regrettably the police in NSW said to my predecessor ‘transfer this brother interstate or we will arrest him’,” Brother McDonald said.
“I could not condone it or live with that, quite frankly.”
He said that particular brother and another brother had both been sent to the US for “treatment” and neither had reoffended.
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