AUSTRALIA
Courier
By Pay Byrne Dec. 3, 2013
A CONVICTED former Christian Brother yesterday pleaded guilty to a fresh charge of indecent assault on a 10-year-old boy at St Alipius Parish School in 1974.
Ballarat Magistrates Court heard Stephen Francis Farrell, 62, of Balwyn North, was 22 years old when he assaulted the boy.
The latest victim became Farrell’s third after he was convicted in 1997 of nine counts of indecent assault stemming from acts he committed on two nine-year-old boys, also pupils at St Alipius during the same period.
Farrell avoided jail in 1997. Yesterday, the court heard Farrell was teaching the victim during an art class in late 1974 when the victim spilt paint on his pants.
Crown prosecutor Raelene Maxwell, who called for the immediate imprisonment of Farrell, said Farrell told the victim to go straight to the sick bay and take his pants off.
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