AUSTRALIA
Sky News
A Christian Brother who sexually abused 20 boys in his care will spend longer in prison after a Victorian court increased the sentence for one of his most terrible crimes.
Prosecutors appealed the maximum six-year jail sentence imposed on Edward ‘Ted’ Bales, who was to serve a minimum of three years after he pleaded guilty to 34 historical child sex abuse charges.
The Court of Appeal on Friday handed Bales a jail term of eight years and five months, with a non-parole period of five years and eight months, after finding he wasn’t handed enough jail time for a ‘brazen’ indecent assault.
The assault of the 11-year-old boy in his own bed while his parents were home was close to the worst conceivable example of the offence, Crown prosecutor Gavin Silbert QC told the court earlier this month.
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