This Broken Rites article is the most comprehensive
account available about how the Christian Brothers organisation
concealed the crimes of Brother Edward Dowlan (now known as Ted Bales).
From the start, the Christian Brothers knew that Dowlan was committing
criminal sexual assaults against Australian schoolchildren but, instead
of dismissing him, the Christian Brothers kept transferring him to more
schools, thus giving him access to more victims.
His victims were usually aged about 11 or 12 but some were as young as 8 or 9. In the 1990s, when some victims finally reported him to the police, the Christian Brothers supported Dowlan and tried to defeat the victims. The victims eventually won (by getting him jailed in 1996 and again in 2015), but their lives have been damaged by the Christian Brothers — and several of Brother Dowlan's victims ended up in suicide. Some other Dowlan victims have not yet contacted the detectives. The Dowlan cover-up will be mentioned in a public hearing of Australia's national child-abuse Royal Commission, which begins on 19 May 2015.
http://brokenrites.org.au/drupal/node/60
His victims were usually aged about 11 or 12 but some were as young as 8 or 9. In the 1990s, when some victims finally reported him to the police, the Christian Brothers supported Dowlan and tried to defeat the victims. The victims eventually won (by getting him jailed in 1996 and again in 2015), but their lives have been damaged by the Christian Brothers — and several of Brother Dowlan's victims ended up in suicide. Some other Dowlan victims have not yet contacted the detectives. The Dowlan cover-up will be mentioned in a public hearing of Australia's national child-abuse Royal Commission, which begins on 19 May 2015.
http://brokenrites.org.au/drupal/node/60