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March 28th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Notorious West Australian pedophile Dennis John McKenna has told an inquiry investigating allegations of child abuse that he doesn’t know how he got away with his sexual offending for so long.
The special inquiry follows the jailing of McKenna, who sexually abused boys at St Andrew’s Hostel, a state-run facility in Western Australia’s great southern region, where he was head warden from 1975 to 1990.
McKenna told the inquiry on Wednesday that he alone was responsible for the sexual abuse.
“I’m sorry, I don’t know how I got away with it,” he said.
McKenna said it could have been because he was well respected in the community and did good things for the school image, but it had not been because he knew people in high places who covered up his actions.
“I don’t know people in high places,” he said, drawing scoffs from the gallery full of victims and their families.
McKenna denied ever threatening students who spoke out against him and said he only gave students warnings that they would be expelled if they had done something wrong.
Asked why he chose to stay in a flat near the dormitory rather than in the warden house, McKenna replied: “I liked where I was.”
Asked why, he said: “Well, it’s obvious I presume.”
Again asked why, McKenna responded: “Some of the sexual abuse was there in that place.”
McKenna denied he was aware of a teacher expressing concern about him in 1976 and denied having boys sit on his lap except for cases in the late 80s.
He said the hostel was an open place and like a family to everyone in it.
If the 11 boys he has been convicted of abusing were unhappy, “I don’t know why they couldn’t say something,” he said.
The first time be heard of a complaint against him was a “whisper” in the mid-80s but he did not know the nature of the complaint.
McKenna also denied watching R-rated films with students, except for Midnight Express, which children had parental permission to see.
He said it was “totally untrue” that he ever watched X-rated films with students or supplied them with alcohol.
“I wouldn’t know where to get X-rated movies,” he said.
“I don’t care how many said that, it’s not true.”
McKenna said he did take older students to shows in Perth but insisted they were not “dirty” and were a reward for Year 12 students.
He also denied ridiculing children and publicly humiliating them by encouraging other students to strip boys naked and label girls “sluts”.
McKenna said he never set out to make anyone’s life miserable.
Retired Supreme Court Justice Peter Blaxell, who is heading the inquiry, will determine the extent of the abuse and whether there was a cover-up in the 1970s and 80s that allowed it to continue.
McKenna was jailed for six years in October last year after pleading guilty to sexually abusing six boys, aged 13 to 15, in his care. He had been jailed in 1991 for similar offences.
The inquiry is expected to be completed by April, with a report presented by May 31.
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