AUSTRALIA
news.com.au
SEPTEMBER 23, 2016
Male students accustomed to Brother Dominic’s abuse would tighten their belts, barricade their desks and even meet before class to discuss how to avoid him reaching under their clothes.
“Bums to the wall, Dom’s on the crawl” was a well-known catch phrase among students at one of his schools.
The 78-year-old Marist brother and former school teacher was on Friday jailed for at least three years after pleading guilty to a string of child sex offences involving 12 victims at NSW Catholic secondary schools between 1971 and 1983.
Sydney District Court judge Kate Traill stressed that she was required to sentence according to laws at the time, which were more lenient towards sex offenders.
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