When the child sex abuse royal commission’s hearing into the Marist
Brothers concludes in Sydney on June 30, Commissioner Justice Jennifer
Coate and her peers must decide if there was a culture of acceptance,
complicity and cover-up within the order or if its leaders could
possibly be as ignorant, naive and incompetent as they have said.
Given Justice Coate repeatedly expressed amazement at claims by a succession of witnesses that they had not been aware sexual abuse against children was a criminal offence as recently as the late 1980s and early 1990s the former outcome appears more likely.
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Given Justice Coate repeatedly expressed amazement at claims by a succession of witnesses that they had not been aware sexual abuse against children was a criminal offence as recently as the late 1980s and early 1990s the former outcome appears more likely.
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