AUSTRALIA/NEW ZEALAND
The Press
PAUL BIBBY, RORY CALLINAN AND MARTIN VAN BEYNEN
A former Catholic brother charged five months ago with hundreds of counts of sexual abuse against children and young adults, is living on a tea plantation in Sri Lanka because the authorities dragged their feet in extraditing him to Australia.
The former St John of God brother, Bernard Kevin McGrath, who recently served two years in a New Zealand prison for sexually abusing boys here, had 252 abuse charges laid against him in a Newcastle court on June 27.
The 65-year-old is alleged to have repeatedly raped, molested and abused dozens of young boys at church-run institutions in the Newcastle-Maitland diocese during the late 1970s and 80s.
It is understood some charges relate to McGrath’s time as a brother at the notorious Kendal Grange College in Morrissett.
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