Investigation needed into whether there are more victims of alleged paedophile Cletus O’Connor, NSW Labor says

Education department has settled 14 cases relating to O’Connor’s alleged abuse dating back to 1973

New South Wales Labor will push the government to reveal what steps it has taken to investigate whether there are more victims of an alleged serial paedophile who for decades abused Indigenous boys while working for the state’s education department.

Guardian Australia revealed on Wednesday that in the past two years the NSW education department has quietly settled more than a dozen claims of child sex abuse made against a department employee who rose through the ranks of the state’s public school system over three decades while preying on young Indigenous boys.

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