Review ordered into former Nudgee College principal and convicted sex offender's care of foster children

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Review ordered into former Nudgee College principal and convicted sex offender's care of foster children
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A review is ordered into how vulnerable foster children were put in the care of a Christian Brother, who has since been convicted of child abuse, via an arrangement with the Children's Department and an exclusive Brisbane private school.

He was also alleged to have associated in 1997 with a paedophile Nudgee old boy, Dennis Norman Douglas, who had pleaded guilty to abusing a child in 1994.

A spokesman for Nudgee College said the college discontinued the program many years ago and those who oversaw the program are no longer involved with the college.The Children's Department confirmed McLaughlin was given "caring responsibilities" for foster children in the 1990s despite having never been "formally assessed" as a foster carer.

"At no time did any student from the program make any allegations of wrongdoing against our client,'' the lawyers said.

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