AUSTRALIA
The Age
November 26, 2012
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 now living in Sri Lanka because authorities dragged their feet in seeking his extradition to Australia.
Former St John of God brother Bernard Kevin McGrath, who recently served two years in a New Zealand prison for sexually abusing boys there, 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 that a number of the charges relate to McGrath’s time as a brother at the notorious Kendall Grange College in Morissett, New South Wales.
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