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By Margaret Scheikowski – AAP on August 16, 2016
A Christian brother accused of sexually abusing a student decades ago was invited to his 21st and played the organ at his wedding, a judge has been told.
Christopher Rafferty, 65, has pleaded not guilty in the District Court in Sydney to six sex offences from when the boy was aged 14 until he was 16.
They allegedly occurred in the mid-1980s at St Patrick’s College at the NSW town of Goulburn.
In the crown opening at the judge-alone trial on Tuesday, prosecutor Lou Lungo said the complainant alleged Rafferty rubbed himself up against him during one-to-one piano accordion lessons.
He is also accused of sex acts involving the boy, that ended when he was “a bit older and knew what the accused was doing was wrong” and he kept away from Rafferty, Mr Lungo said.
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