AUSTRALIA
Wyndham Star Weekly
Goya Dmytryshchak
UPDATE: An Altona woman has spoken about facing her abuser in court after a 16-year battle to have the Catholic brother extradited from the US.
Bernard Joseph Hartman, a former teacher at St Paul’s College in Altona North, faced court in relation to historical sexual abuse complaints made against him by two former students at the boys’ college and two women whose brothers attended the school.
On April 15, Hartman, 75, pleaded guilty in the County Court to four counts of indecent assault, including vaginal penetration, of two girls aged between eight and 11 between 1973 and 1979.
On May 1 a jury found Hartman guilty of one count of indecent assault and two of common law assault against a man, now 49, who was his student in years 10 and 11 in 1981 and 1982.
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