Catholic Church Abuse

Marist Brother Gerard Joseph McNamara, a teacher at St. Paul’s College college was accused of sexually abusing students between 1970 and 1976

Seeking witnesses who may have information about Father Rees, a priest or assistant priest at Our Lady of Good Counsel Church in West Wallsend NSW, between approximately 1985 and 1988

The Marist Fathers, a Catholic religious order, have faced allegations of child abuse globally. This article looks at the 5 most notorious abusers in Tasmania, where survivors seek justice and compensation.

The abuses of Ted Bales at Christian Brothers College in Warrnambool and the legal avenues for survivors of child sexual abuse to seek justice and compensation as 7 new claims made against him.

Father Peter John O’Neill, a former teacher, was charged with multiple counts of sexual abuse against schoolboys during the 1980s. He admitted to six counts…

The first allegations at St Mary’s Agricultural School emerged in the late 1920s, with the Christian Brothers’ Provincial Council becoming aware of abuse issues as early as 1919. Critical management failures were particularly evident from 1947 to 1968.

The case of Brother Edward Mamo, a former Catholic religious Brother, brings to the forefront the serious issue of abuse within the institutional settings of Monivae College in Hamilton, Victoria and Chevalier College in Bowral in NSW

The Catholic Diocese of Wollongong has been marred by serious allegations of historical institutional child sexual abuse involving key figures such as John Gerard Nestor, Father Peter Lewis Comensoli, and Brother Michael Evans.

From the late 20th century through recent years, over 150 Marist Brothers have been accused of child sexual abuse, encompassing a broad range of illicit conduct.