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25 February 2016

'I'm appalled at what happened': former headmaster's regrets at child abuse inquiry

A RELIGIOUS superior has admitted to a woefully inadequate culture of protecting children and told an inquiry the Christian Brothers could have not comprehended the enormity of the trauma caused by their brutality and sexual abuse.
Superior of the Christian Brother’s Ballarat community and former headmaster of St Patrick’s College Brother Paul Nangle said the psychosexual formation of brothers was “defective” and while the rape of children could never be justified, he believed society was more relaxed about matters of sexuality during the sexual revolution in the 1970s.

http://www.theislanderonline.com.au/story/3748135/im-appalled-at-what-happened-former-headmasters-regrets-at-child-abuse-inquiry/?cs=2452