THE Archbishop of Adelaide has agreed the Catholic Church's response to sexual abuse claims at a special school should have started about a decade earlier than it did.
Archbishop Philip Wilson told the royal commission into sexual abuse in Adelaide on Monday that if his predecessor had known of the claims in 1993, he would have expected police would have been contacted, letters written to parents and other processes put in place.
"If the matter was known, it should have been dealt with in all the formal ways that are required," he said.
The commission is investigating St Ann's Special School and its bus driver Brian Perkins, who sexually abused intellectually disabled children between 1986 and 1991.
The archbishop was referred to a statement of his predecessor, Archbishop Leonard Faulkner, who said he was informally told in 1993 about the arrest and charging of Perkins, who worked at St Ann's.
Archbishop Wilson said he first learnt of the claims in late 2001, when Archbishop Faulkner told him the Catholic Education Office had received a complaint from parents saying children had been molested by a bus driver at St Ann's.
Archbishop Wilson told the commission he was appalled and horrified and took immediate steps to put appropriate responses and processes in place.
The church made an offer to police to pay for Perkins's extradition from Queensland and Archbishop Wilson said that in March 2002 he wrote to parents who had children at the school at the relevant times.
The hearing is continuing.
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