AUSTRALIA
Broken Rites
By a Broken Rites researcher (article posted 12 November 2014)
A retired Christian Brother who taught in Catholic schools at Manly (in Sydney) and Goulburn (in southern New South Wales) has been charged with a number of historical indecent assaults on five boys. The alleged offences involved three boys at Manly and two at Goulburn, who were aged between 13 and 15 at the time, between 1973 and 1976.
The 75-year-old Brother was arrested on 10 November 2014 at a residence for Christian Brothers in southern New South Wales.
Detectives from Northern Beaches Police Command in Sydney executed a search warrant of his residence and seized documents and computers that are now undergoing further examination.
The charges stemmed from Australia’s current national Royal Commission into Institutional Child Sexual Abuse, at which alleged evidence has been produced. The Royal Commission material was referred to Sydney’s Northern Beaches Police for investigation.
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