AUSTRALIA
Canberra Times
A former St Edmund’s College brother has pleaded guilty to repeatedly molesting a child at a school in Wollongong, where he was allowed to teach despite prior complaints of abuse.
The first known complaint about John Vincent Roberts, now 73, was made in Christian Brothers schools in NSW at some point before 1978, when he moved to the order’s ACT school, St Edmund’s.
He allegedly abused another student during his five-year stint in Canberra between 1978 and 1983.
Roberts was allowed to continue teaching, and he moved to Wollongong where he taught at the prestigious Edmund Rice College.
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