School sex abuse case widens
Damien Murphy & Jonathan Dart; 10/9/08
Allegations of sexual abuse at St Stanislaus’s College in Bathurst are likely to widen, with two more former teachers at the school to be named to police. A 47-year-old man who attended the school in the 1970s said he witnessed what he called “inappropriate sexual behaviour” by a priest and a brother, members of the Vincentian Order, while he was a boarder there. He was preparing a statement for police about the behaviour of the priest and brother after reading reports in the past fortnight that three religious teachers at the school in the ’70s and ’80s had been arrested and charged with child-sex offences. He said the brother used to get into bed and sleep with boarders regularly “to comfort them and stop them being homesick”. The priest, he said, had pursued him at the school and asked him to go to bed when he visited a former schoolmate at the Vincentian seminary in Sydney.
See: http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/sex-abuse-case-widens/2008/09/09/1220857547392.html
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