NEW ZEALAND
New Zealand Herald
By Kurt Bayer
Monday Dec 3, 2012
A former Catholic brother and convicted paedophile has been arrested in Christchurch after returning to New Zealand from Sri Lanka.
Bernard Kevin McGrath, a former St John of God brother, faces extradition to Australia on 252 sexual abuse charges.
In 2006, he was jailed for five years for sexually abusing boys at Marylands School in Christchurch in the 1970s, and was paroled in 2008.
McGrath fled New Zealand to Sri Lanka earlier this year and was reportedly living on a tea plantation in the highlands.
Now, Australian police want him extradited from New Zealand to face the new charges of abusing, molesting and raping boys and young adults at church-run institutions in New South Wales over several decades.
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