AUSTRALIA
Daily Mail
By Bryant Hevesi For Daily Mail Australia
A school teacher who sexually abused two young male pupils was employed at a Catholic school despite telling officials he was previously convicted for sexual assault.
Documents released by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse reveal how legal advice obtained by a Catholic Diocese said the boy’s parents then had the right to sue over a failure to adequately protect their children.
When one victim tried in 2005 to seek compensation from the Maitland-Newcastle Diocese in New South Wales, they ‘fiercely resisted’, documents say, according to The Newcastle Herald.
The teacher, known only as GKI, was charged with indecently assaulting two boys in 1988, and later convicted of the offences, documents released on Monday show.
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