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Queensland government to review convicted child abuser and former Nudgee College principal Stephen McLaughlin’s care of foster children

Following an ABC investigation, the state government has ordered a review into how vulnerable foster children were placed into the care of a Brisbane private school headmaster who has since been convicted of child abuse.

Former Christian Brother Stephen David McLaughlin had claimed in 1996 to have been a foster carer for up to 40 children through an arrangement involving private boy’s boarding school St Joseph’s Nudgee College and the then Families Department.

McLaughlin had been headmaster of the prestigious college from 1988 to 1993 before being appointed head of the Brother’s Xavier province in 1996.

Earlier this year, McLaughlin was convicted of abusing a child he had been babysitting in 2015. The child had no connection to Nudgee College.

McLaughlin had been the subject of several failed police investigations related to child abuse allegations in the late 1990s and early 2000s including allegedly taking children to stay with him in motels. His lawyers have said their client denies any child abuse allegations.

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