AUSTRALIA
Broken Rites
By a Broken Rites researcher (article updated 9 February 2014)
A convicted pedophile Christian Brother who changed his name from Ted Dowlan to Ted Bales to avoid publicity has admitted to another 55 offences committed during his long career as a Christian Brother in Victorian schools. Ted Bales, 64, is now behind bars after more of his earlier victims contacted the police.
Ted Bales pleaded guilty to these additional charges of sexual assault at the Melbourne Magistrates Court on 9 October 2014 and was immediately taken into custody. He will be sentenced in early 2015.
Originally known as Brother Edward Vernon Dowlan, he belonged to the Victoria-Tasmanian province of the Christian Brothers. He worked at Catholic schools in Melbourne, Ballarat, Geelong and Warrnambool.
In 2014, under his new surname of Bales, he was charged with indecently assaulting males in Ballarat, Forest Hill (Melbourne) and Warrnambool between 1970 and 1975 and in East Melbourne and Lower Templestowe (Melbourne) between 1980 and 1984.
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