AUSTRALIA
The Canberra Times
Katie Burgess
The head of Marist Brothers’ Australia has acknowledged a failure in governance led to a “cluster” of abuse at their Canberra College.
Brother Peter Carroll was called to give evidence at the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse on Wednesday.
When cross-examined over how these “clusters” could have occurred at several Marist schools including Canberra’s during royal commission proceedings , Brother Carroll said many cases were the work of one perpetrator.
But when was asked if poor governance led to the abuse clusters, he said that “can’t be refuted”.
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“I think there were, you know, governance shortcomings. What they were … was the centralisation of authority and the whole hierarchical model that was in use,” he said.
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