institutional sexual abuse

The abuse at St Bernard’s College Essendon perpetrated by Brother Robert Charles Best and Father Daniel Dominic Hourigan continues to haunt survivors many decades later.

evin Lynch, a trusted school counsellor at Brisbane Grammar School and later St Paul’s School, was at the centre of a devastating abuse scandal that impacted countless young lives.

Starting January 2025, child abuse survivors can enter aged care without the financial burden of National Redress payments affecting their access to essential services.

In 2015, Brother Dowlan was sentenced for offences committed against 20 boys across several schools, Chanel College among them.

Father Anthony William Peter Caruana, who served as a dorm master, rugby coach, and bandmaster at Chevalier College eft a lasting impact on many students, but recent allegations of abuse have cast his role in a troubling new light.

The Allambie Reception Centre, once a home for vulnerable children, became a site of mistreatment and abuse at the hands of Ronald Paul Harper and other staff members.

St Carthage’s Primary School in Lismore, under the leadership of the Marist Brothers, has faced allegations and serious charges of child sexual abuse. Survivors who suffered at the hands of Brother Gregory Sutton and Brother John “Kostka” Chute have endured years of trauma.

For many Australians, sports and outdoor activity clubs are places of growth and camaraderie. Unfortunately, for some, these environments have also been sites of abuse.

The Passionist Order, also known as the Congregation of the Passion of Jesus Christ, has been embroiled in serious abuse allegations in Australia. Key figures within the order, such as Father Daniel Lyne and Brother Vincent Crawford, have been implicated in numerous cases of sexual abuse spanning several decades.