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A 73-year-old American Catholic brother has returned from the US to face accusations he sexually assaulted four children at a Melbourne school more than 30 years ago.
Bernard Joseph Hartman is facing 14 charges of indecently assaulting two boys and two girls at St Paul’s College in Altona.
The assaults allegedly happened between 1976 and 1982, when Hartman was working at the school, with victims aged from six to 16.
The Melbourne Magistrates Court heard Hartman voluntarily returned to Melbourne on Wednesday and was arrested at the airport on arrival.
Hartman had returned to the US in 1984 and has been working at the Archdiocese of Cincinnati in Ohio.
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