Church fixer’s damning revelations: 21 out of 23 St John of God brothers faced allegations of physical or sexual abuse

Damning revelations from a former church fixer reveals that almost all St John of God Catholic brothers faced allegations of physical or sexual abuse. Steve Kilgallon reports.

In 2002, Sydney clinical psychologist Michelle Mulvihill made 13 trips to New Zealand; visits which took her the entire length of the country.

It wasn’t a pleasant experience: she was here to negotiate settlements with survivors of the worst episode of child abuse in the history of the New Zealand Catholic Church.

The church itself last week conceded that 14 per cent of all historic complaints it has received related to the Marylands residential school in Christchurch, but did not disclose the number of alleged abusers.

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