Marist head apologises as Catholic hearing closes

By Ian Kirkwood
Updated September 9 2016 - 8:07am, first published September 8 2016 - 11:30pm
Joanne McCarthy and Royal Commission chairman Justice Peter McClellan
Joanne McCarthy and Royal Commission chairman Justice Peter McClellan

THE Marist Brothers have formally apologised to the family of Andrew Nash, whose suicide in 1974 at the age of 13 has been one of the prime symbols of the pain and suffering caused by child sexual abuse, examined at the Maitland-Newcastle Catholic hearing of the Royal Commission.

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