Retired brother likely to face new charges

AUSTRALIA
Newcastle Herald

By SAM RIGNEY
Dec. 18, 2012

INVESTIGATORS expect to lay further charges against a retired brother who allegedly indecently assaulted two students at a Hunter Marist Brothers college during the 1960s and 1970s.

Strike Force Georgiana detectives, tasked with investigating historical sexual and indecent assault allegations levelled at several Hunter priests, travelled to Cook, about 10kilometres north west of Canberra, this month to interview the 80-year-old man.

He was later charged with three counts of indecent assault allegedly committed against two victims while they were at school in the 1960s and 1970s.

The retired brother was granted bail to appear in Newcastle Local Court on January 29, 2013.

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