Stephen Jones was a student at Edmund Rice College in Wollongong in the early 1980s. Photo: Steven Siewert Boys at Wollongong’s Edmund Rice College in the 1980s knew sexual predators moved freely among them, and would share advice about who to avoid being alone with, Throsby MP Stephen Jones — a former school captain — has revealed. Following another teacher’s admission of guilt over historic child sex crimes at the West Wollongong all-boys college, Mr Jones said the school had felt like a “dumping ground” for paedophiles whose crimes were overlooked by those who could have ended the abuse.  “There was a whole bunch of them paedophiles at the time I was there,” said Mr Jones, who graduated from the school in 1983. Stephen Jones was … Next »

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