AUSTRALIA
Illawarra Mercury
By SHANNON TONKIN
March 9, 2016
A former Catholic Brother has fronted Wollongong court accused of sexually abusing a young male student at Edmund Rice College in the late 1980s.
John Vincent Roberts was a teacher at the prestigious single-sex school when he allegedly repeatedly molested and raped the 12-year-old boy while on school grounds.
Police charge sheets presented in court claim Roberts’ carried out several acts of indecency upon the child, including fondling his penis and anus, and masturbating him.
Roberts is also accused of rubbing his own erect penis over the boy’s body at least twice in an 18 month period.
Police allege Roberts’ sexual attention towards the boy escalated into rape on several occasions.
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