AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By New Zealand correspondent Dominique Schwartz and Giselle Wakatama
Updated 25 Aug 2014
A former Catholic Brother wanted in Australia for alleged child sexual abuse is challenging a decision to extradite him from New Zealand.
Bernard Kevin McGrath has been fighting authorities’ efforts to bring him back to Australia for two years.
In 2012, New South Wales police requested his extradition so he could answer 252 charges of sexual offending.
The charges relate to allegations McGrath sexually abused 35 boys in the 1970s and 1980s in the Lake Macquarie region, south of Sydney.
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