Alleged abusers named as Nudgee Junior College scandal deepens
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Subscriber only More 20 old boys of Nudgee Junior College have come forward with fresh allegations of sexual and physical abuse at the hands of at least two Christian Brothers. Former principals Brother Michael Carthage Proctor and Brother John Regan have been identified as the chief alleged abusers of children aged 8 to 12 at the prestigious Indooroopilly boarding school in the 1960s and 1970s respectively. Jed McNamara, special counsel at Maurice Blackburn Lawyers, said he expected more Brothers to be named as the number of calls from witnesses continued to climb following The Courier-Mail reporting allegations against the Catholic school on the weekend.
Prestigious boysâ school hit by child abuse allegations Allegations of child abuse have been levelled at a prestigious Catholic boysâ school, with former students urged to come forward.
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Subscriber only Allegations of child abuse have been levelled at a prestigious Brisbane Catholic boys school, with lawyers urging former students to come forward. Nudgee Junior College, renamed Ambrose Treacy College in 2015, is at the centre of a legal probe concerning young boys who attended the Indooroopilly institution from the mid-1960s to the mid-1980s. Principal of Ambrose Treacy College, Chris Ryan, said he was unaware of any specifics around the allegations.
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Police update: Arrest – Aggravated robbery in Alice Springs
Strike Force Viper has this morning arrested four youths in relation to a series of criminal and property offences committed in Alice Springs overnight.
Investigations identified the four aged 10, 13, 13 and 14-years-old were involved in a group of upwards of 15 youths who approached a 28-year-old female patron in a carpark off Railway Terrace, where they allegedly assaulted her before stealing her handbag and food from inside her vehicle.
It will be alleged the group then set upon a 43-year-old man who attempted to help the woman and intervened. The group threw rocks and physically assaulted the man who attempted to flee the area in his vehicle, clipping one of the youth who is alleged to have then jumped on the man’s vehicle and thrown rocks and kicked the windscreen, before the man drove away to safety.
He is scheduled to appear before court on 24 June, 2021.
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