AUSTRALIA
The Canberra Times
Former Marist Brother provincial Alexis Turton denies shipping paedophile Greg Sutton to Canada to foil police investigation
June 18, 2014
David Ellery
Reporter for The Canberra Times.
Former Marist Brother provincial Alexis Turton has denied shipping a known paedophile out of the country on three days notice in order to foil a police investigation.
According to a memo presented in evidence to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, Brother Turton had learnt on August 13, 1989, that police were investigating claims Greg Sutton had molested students at St Thomas Moore Primary School in Sydney in 1984.
Sutton was put on a plane to a counselling centre in Canada on August 18.
Brother Turton did not deny he first spoke to the manager of the centre, known as Southdown, on August 15.
He denied writing the incriminating memo which refers to Sutton as ‘Bart’, but accepted that Bart was Sutton.
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