AUSTRALIA
7 News
Mike Duffy, 7News Sydney
Updated November 13, 2012
More arrests are expected after police charged two former Sydney schoolteachers with child sex offences.
The allegations go back to the 1980’s, when both worked at Patrician Brothers’ College in Blacktown.
Last night’s arrests came as the Federal Government announced a Royal Commission into child abuse.
Science teacher Brother Martin Harmata is known to thousands of western Sydney school children.
The 59-year-old outdoorsman with 30 years of service at Patrician Brothers’ College in Blacktown is highly regarded. But now Brother Harmata stands accused of the sexual abuse of two schoolboys, aged 12 and 13, in the 1980’s.
Parents are shocked.
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