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State: TAS. Offence/ Sentence: Found guilty of fifteen charges of indecent assault against nine girls, while teaching grade six, at a Catholic school near Burnie, in 1982. Sentenced in 1999, to 4yrs jail. Other: Now Released. Randell was an international cricket umpire. |
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DISGRACED former international cricket umpire Stephen Randell is said to have apologised in 1994 for abusing a boy - but the Christian Brothers never told authorities. Randell continued to work as a schoolteacher for another four years. The shameful secret has been revealed in a county court in Victoria, where one of Randell's victims has pleaded guilty to taking a loaded pistol into a nightclub. Randell was jailed in 1999 after being found guilty of sexually abusing nine girls at the Catholic Church's Marist Regional College in Burnie in 1981-82. He had been a teacher at the school and his crimes were revealed in 1997 when his victims decided to tell their stories to police. In 1998, Randell was charged by police, which led Tasmania's Education Department to suspend him from his job as a teacher at the Bellerive Primary School. But it has now been revealed that a meeting organised by the Christian Brothers in 1994 was told that Randell had sexually abused a boy - but the information was never passed on. "There was a mediation meeting and it is standard rules that parties to that mediation are not at liberty to reveal to any non-parties the issues discussed there," said Christian Brothers spokesman Brother Brian Brandon, of Melbourne. "I can say that it was a personal discussion. "We didn't know the details of any one discussion." Brother Brandon said it was a "standard provision of mediation law" that details of meetings not be revealed publicly. The mediation meeting was held in a hotel room at Sandy Bay in 1994 after a former student of St Virgil's College in Hobart, Mr X, complained he had been sexually abused by Randell in the late 1970s. Randell, who only a few years earlier had been head prefect and school captain at St Virgil's, was a volunteer cricket and football coach at the school run by the Christian Brothers, a Catholic teaching order. Mr X rang a help-line number and, as a result of his complaint, the Christian Brothers in Melbourne organised for a clinical psychologist, Shane Wall, to travel to Tasmania to mediate the issue. Mr Wall, an independent counsellor and psychologist, had been retained by the Christian Brothers to run a help service for people complaining of abuse by clergy and church officials. Mr Wall, Mr X, Mr X's mother, another psychologist from Queensland and Randell attended the meeting. The details of this meeting have remained a secret for almost 10 years, but earlier this month Mr X appeared in the County Court of Victoria where he pleaded guilty to a range of charges, including taking a pistol into a nightclub in Melbourne and threatening to kill the crowd controllers. In mitigation, lawyer Patrick Casey told the court Mr X had been subject to the vilest of abuses by Randell, which had resulted in his developing a serious drug problem. Mr Casey told the court the Catholic Church had organised the meeting between Randell and Mr X at which Randell had apologised to his victim. Randell has never been convicted of criminal charges for sexually abusing Mr X but an earlier Melbourne hearing was told Mr X received $40,000 in criminal injuries compensation in Tasmania. The criminal charges relating to Mr X and several girls were dropped because the Crown was concerned media coverage meant Randell would not get a fair trial. Mr X has a personal injuries writ lodged in the Supreme Court of Tasmania but while it is still active, there have been no legal moves since 1998. Mr X moved to Melbourne some years ago. He has been remanded in custody pending sentence on the gun charges. Randell worked with the Tasmanian Education Department on and off from 1975 to 1998 but until 1998, the department was never told of any concerns about his behaviour towards children. Brother Brandon said Randell had never been employed by the Christian Brothers and his involvement at St Virgil's was as a volunteer sports coach. Asked why the Christian Brothers had never reported the results of the mediation to Education Department officials, Brother Brandon said: "We were not particularly aware of where and by whom he was employed other than his profession as a cricket umpire. "At that time there was no clear knowledge that Steve Randell was a teacher. "I'd hasten to add that his mediation, from what I am aware of, was a meeting between Stephen and X. "He had no convictions, there was no clear position on which we would advise anyone in particular of any such danger." Randell was jailed in August 1999 and released in April 2002 www.news.com.au (22-9-2003) Ellen Whinnett |
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