The scandal rocking the Christian Brothers | Four Corners Documentary
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The Christian Brothers have had more sexual abuse claims made against them than any other Catholic order in Australia. In June, with more than 300 active sexual abuse claims and facing hundreds of millions of dollars in compensation payouts, the Brothers informed victim-survivors that they were on the brink of insolvency. Their proposed solution — a creditors' scheme. Established in Ireland in the nineteenth century, the order came to Australia and educated children here for more than a century. In 2007, the Brothers set up a separate entity to run their schools and from 2013, they transferred school properties worth hundreds of millions of dollars to that organisation for a nominal sum, in many instances, one dollar or less. The recipient, the Trustees of Edmund Rice Education Australia, now runs 61 Christian Brothers schools, educating 44,000 students across the country. Unsurprisingly, lawyers for victim-survivors turned to Edmund Rice Education Australia to defend claims and pay
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