Christian Brother Terence Simpson worked in Catholic schools in Queensland and New South Wales. In the 1960s, he was indecently assaulting his pupils at St Joseph's College in Gregory Terrace in Brisbane. When victims complained, Simpson's superiors merely moved him to Christian Brothers schools in New South Wales, thereby putting more students in danger. Later, Simpson became a university lecturer in Queensland, training a new generation of teachers. Many years later, six of his Brisbane victims spoke (separately) to the police. On Tuesday 18 June 2019, Simpson is scheduled to be sentenced in the Brisbane District Court regarding the sixth victim.

First court case, 1998

Terence Simpson appeared in Brisbane Magistrates Court 7 August 1998 (then aged 58), regarding two of his victims from the Gregory Terrace school. The court was told that Simpson used to indecently grope boys as they stood behind his desk in front of the class, even during "religion" lessons.

Simpson evidently had numerous victims, two of whom contacted police in the late 1990s, after 36 years. One said he contacted police because he now had children of his own and wanted all children to be protected better than he had been.

Simpson pleaded guilty to indecently dealing with two these boys, aged eight and nine, in 1962.

Simpson's lawyer, Keith Tronc, blamed the Christian Brothers for sparking Simpson's crimes. Tronc said the Christian Brothers were an "evil, depraved organisation that fostered and sheltered paedophiles."

As a young trainee Brother in Sydney, said Tronc, Simpson noticed a senior Brother indecently dealing with a small boy. Simpson tried to report this crime but was criticised by the senior Brother and was sexually assaulted himself.

Later, Simpson himself started molesting his own pupils.

Simpson and the Christian Brothers order later parted company. Terence Simpson eventually became a university lecturer in Queensland, with a PhD degree in education.

Judge Manus Boyce gave Dr Terry Simpson a two-year jail sentence which was suspended.

Second court case, 2004

In the Brisbane District Court in October 2004, Terence Anthony Simpson pleaded guilty to seven charges of indecent treatment involving three former students aged nine and 10 years, at the Gregory Terrace school in the 190s. He admitted molesting the boys during class at his desk and at the back of the classroom.

The court was told that Simpson went on to have a long and successful career as an educator, and was involved in teaching, at tertiary level, an estimated 10,000 teachers.

In sentencing, the judge acknowledged that Simpson should have been sentenced regarding these three victims in 1998 when he first came before the court. The judge gave Simpson a wholly suspended jail sentence regarding these three victims.

Third court case, 2019

In the Brisbane District Court on 20 June 2019, Terence Simpson is to be sentenced for indecently dealing with another boy, aged ten, at the Gregory Terrace school in 1962. Simpson is pleading guilty regarding this boy.

New South Wales

A former student from New South Wales has told Broken Rites that he remembers Brother Terence Simpson teaching at St Edward's College in Gosford, north of Sydney.