AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By Sarah Hawke
A Catholic brother found guilty of indecently assaulting 18 boys at a boarding school in southern New South Wales has been sentenced to more than nine years in prison.
William Peter Standen was sentenced on 18 charges in the District Court in Sydney over offences that occurred in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
In March, he pleaded guilty to the offences, which happened when he was a year seven boarding-house master.
In sentencing the 67-year-old, Judge Anthony Blackmore described what the victims, who were mostly 12, had suffered.
The court heard Standen repeatedly asked the victims to go to his room after dark where he slapped and rubbed their naked buttocks, in another case he rubbed the genitals of a boy on a camping trip.
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