James Sampson Doran

Records by the State Coroner’s Court of New South Wales indicate that Mr James Sampson Doran was born in April 1933, growing up in the western suburbs of Sydney. After returning from Korea in approximately 1955, Mr Doran became an English teacher at St Patrick’s School in the Sydney suburb of Fairfield and attempted his religious formation as a Patrician Brother but left the Order before his final profession/vows. After leaving St Patrick’s, James Doran worked for a short period of time as a shopkeeper before returning to teaching and working at the following schools:

  • Holy Trinity Catholic School - Inverell, NSW (1980);

  • St John’s College - Woodlawn, NSW (1983);

  • St Teresa’s Catholic College - Abergowrie, Qld (1988).

James Doran retired as a teacher in 1994 and passed away in October 2018. He was 85 years old at the time of death.

It is reported that James Doran was charged with the following offences throughout his life:

  • 1950 - wilful and obscene exposure;

  • 2014 - 81 sequences of historical child sex offences, mainly in relation to his time at St John's Woodlawn but also involving an offence relating to his time at St Patrick’s and another during his time at Holy Trinity College; and

  • 2015 - 11 further sequences relating to sexual offences against children, and charged also with multiple sexual offences against a male student whilst he was a teacher at St Patrick’s, his first school of employment.

In 2017, James Doran was sentences for a total of 30 offences in which he received a term of 13 years imprisonment with a non-parole period of 6 years, expiring in 2023. James Doran was 83 years old at the time of his sentence.

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