AUSTRALIA
Newcastle Herald
Joanne McCarthy
6 Feb 2017
A CATHOLIC order that ran a Morisset residential school for troubled or disabled boys for five decades had a staggering 40 per cent of its members accused of sexually abusing children, the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has heard.
The commission has been told 40.4 per cent of St John of God Brothers, who ran the Kendall Grange facility at Morisset between 1948 and its closure in 2000, were alleged perpetrators.
The figure is significantly higher than the Christian Brothers order, where 22 per cent were alleged perpetrators, the Salesians of Don Bosco Brothers (21.9 per cent), the Marist Brothers (20.4 per cent) and De La Salle Brothers (13.8 per cent).
The Royal Commission heard the shocking figures on the first day of its 50th public hearing, which is the final hearing into the Catholic Church and is expected to run for three weeks.
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