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23 October 2015

Marist victim calls for oversight of institutional abuse investigations

A Canberra sex abuse survivor has teamed up with a professional standards expert employed by the Catholic Church to push for internal institutional abuse investigations in the ACT to be as open and transparent as they have been in NSW for more than a decade.
Damian De Marco, who testified about abuse at Marist Brothers College in Canberra during last year's sex abuse Royal Commission hearings, said calls for a "reportable conduct scheme" for Canberra, had tentative bipartisan political support.

http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/marist-victim-calls-for-oversight-of-institutional-abuse-investigations-20151013-gk7qzp.html