AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By Nick McLaren
An Illawarra MP has spoken of his sadness after his former school admitted it had let one of its students down by failing to protect him from a paedophile Christian Brother.
Stephen Jones is the Federal Member for Whitlam and a former school captain and dux at Edmund Rice College in West Wollongong.
The conviction, and likely jail sentence, of a former Christian Brother has prompted the catholic MP to reflect on his own personal experience at the school.
John Vincent Roberts, aged 73, yesterday pleaded guilty to 11 of 21 charges relating to the historical sex abuse of a 12-year-old boy at the school.
Police only became aware of the abuse as a result of hearings before the royal commission into child sexual abuse last year.
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