AUSTRALIA
Canberra Times
Alexandra Back
It was the morning of June 20, 2012, and the phone call, from a former Daramalan College student to the headmaster at Marist College Canberra, came out of the blue.
The headmaster, Richard Sidorko, had been the former student’s boarding master at an interstate school in the 1980s, and they had come to know each other quite well during that time.
The conversation that day had moved from general chat chat, to talk about another former student, who had recently died. The student then asked the headmaster about a sexual abuse case at Marist College, which had been generating attention.
“He then said, ‘you know, I’ve been abused too’,” Mr Sidorko told the ACT Supreme Court on Tuesday, at the trial of the student’s alleged abuser. “My response was surprised, but not surprised.
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