This woman ruined countless lives and was protected by various principals at St Patrick's, including Sister Narelle Whiteman who refused to acknowledge McManus had done anything wrong.
The original article is below.
For many years there have been allegations and rumours of psychological, emotional, verbal and physical abuse at St Patrick's Lithgow. Some of these allegations have been made under oath in various courts as targetted whistleblowers have sought justice. The current Royal Commission has shown the extent to which various churches will go in order to cover up sexual abuse - so it's only to be expected that other forms of abuse have also been covered up over the years, and whistleblowers' lives destroyed.
The reason I have written this short article is to alert parents that this has been the situation at this school for many years.
I would encourage parents who feel their child is being belittled, derided, intimidated and otherwise put down to think carefully before acting, but not to allow the child to spend a whole year in fear.
If your child is terrified of going to school, having nightmares and generally being fearful, consider whether to move them to another school for the year.
Years of experience of other parents have shown that the Catholic Education Office in Bathurst will go all out to attack anyone who complains. Instead of protecting the children they threaten to sue in order to protect the school. The lives of two families that we know of have been destroyed by them, people have lost their jobs and have been run out of town by the CEO vigilantes and friends of the teacher.One year a group of parents went to the media with their complaint. Yet it seems after all this time the teacher is still there and nothing has changed.
Just be warned that if you do complain, you may lose everything you have. Better to just take the child out of the school in order to protect them.
A good organization to speak to is Broken Rites Australia.
http://www.brokenrites.org.au/drupal/ 
I believe this article is in the public interest. The reaction from the Catholic Education Office in Bathurst also shows that the Royal Commission has taught them nothing.
The article also has the aim of protecting children and encouraging parents who feel something is not right to do something. Because the Catholic Education Office won't.
Defamation?
Under the old Australian system of individual state laws, almost anyone or any organisation or company could bring an action for defamation. However, under the Uniform Defamation Law of 2006, corporations with 10 or more employees cannot sue.
The first paragraph of this article (only) was originally published on Sydney Indymedia. There it sat for two months undiscovered, until this week, when the following was received by Sydney Indymedia from the Catholic Education Office in Bathurst.
The posting is false and defamatory and submitted by an anonymous (not verified) source.
It infringes your editorial policy. (sic)
Please have this posting deleted immediately.
Brian Morrissey
Head, Administrative Services
Catholic Education Office
Gilmour St
Kelso NSW 2795"
Goodness me, 'submitted by an anonymous (not verified) source'.
Clearly Mr Morrissey does not understand what independent media is about.
Unfortunately, as they are not experts in defamation law, the collective voted to take the article down.
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