AUSTRALIA
ABC News

By Giselle Wakatama

A former Catholic brother has been granted bail in New Zealand after returning to face hundreds of child-sex charges relating to matters in Australia.

Bernard Kevin McGrath, 65, has been charged with 252 child sex offences and is facing extradition to Australia.

The offences relate to his time as a brother with the St John of God Catholic order at the Kendall Grange home for boys at Morisset, south of Newcastle.

The ABC has been told there are 35 alleged victims.