NEW ZEALAND
ABC News
A New Zealand judge has today heard an extradition appeal by a former Hunter priest, wanted on more than 250 charges of child sexual abuse.
Former Catholic brother Bernard Kevin McGrath, 66, is facing 252 charges of child sexual abuse, alleged to have occurred in the Lake Macquarie region in the 1970s and 80s and involving 35 victims.
Now living in New Zealand, he has been fighting extradition to Australia for years and was ordered by New Zealand’s Justice Minister to surrender to Australia in August.
That prompted an appeal by McGrath to the High Court in Christchurch.
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