AUSTRALIA
Perth Now
JANET FIFE-YEOMANS NEWS LIMITED MAY 06, 2014
THEY referred to it as having “difficulty with the second vow” — chastity.
The Christian Brothers’ own historian identified 70 brothers around Australia who had complaints made against them mainly of sexually abusing boys between 1919 and 1969, the child sex abuse royal commission has been told.
There were 18 of them who were repeat offenders while one had five separate complaints and another four complaints.
Yet from 1945 the institution’s leadership appeared to have gone soft and not one brother was expelled from the order.
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