AUSTRALIA
Australian Teacher
BALLARAT, Vic, Dec 3 – The ripple effect of damage caused by a former Christian Brother who confessed to abusing a third schoolboy means he must be jailed, prosecutors and victims’ advocates say.
Stephen Francis Farrell, 62, pleaded guilty to indecently assaulting a 10-year-old boy while he was teaching at St Alipius School in Ballarat in the mid-1970s.
It is the third victim Farrell has admitted to assaulting, after a 1997 conviction on nine charges of indecently assaulting two brothers at St Alipius about the same period.
On that occasion Farrell avoided jail, with a two-year prison sentence suspended for two years.
But prosecutor Raeleene Maxwell called for Farrell to be jailed for the new offence.
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