ST. LOUIS (MO)
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
By Robert Patrick rpatrick@post-dispatch.com
ST. LOUIS • An advocacy group for victims of sexual abuse praised on Thursday the extradition order that will send a former University City man to Australia to face child sexual abuse charges.
The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests called U.S. Magistrate Judge Nannette Baker’s extradition order last month a “win for victims everywhere,” and urged any victims of David Kramer to come forward to police.
Australian authorities claim Kramer fondled or otherwise indecently assaulted four male students, ages 10 and 11, who attended the school where Kramer taught. The abuse was alleged to have occurred from 1989-92, while Kramer was teaching at a school in St. Kilda, a Melbourne suburb.
Officials charged Kramer last December, months before he was released from a Missouri prison after serving a seven-year sentence for sexual misconduct and statutory sodomy. Prosecutors said he fondled a 12-year-old boy and masturbated in front of him in an apartment in University City. Kramer pleaded guilty in 2008.
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