NEW ZEALAND
NZCity

February 20, 2018

A New Zealander says a St John of God Catholic brother, who sexually abused him when he was six, says a 33-year Australian jail term is not long enough.

A New Zealand man who had his childhood “stolen” from him by a St John of God Catholic brother says a 33-year jail term for his sexual abuser is not enough.

The jail term was handed to convicted sex offender Bernard McGrath, 70, in a Sydney court last week after he subjected boys at Kendall Grange boys’ home in New South Wales to years of sexual assaults in the 1980s.

Victims and their families cheered the sentence in relief, Australian media reports.

But for Darryl Smith, 54, the jail term is not enough.

McGrath sexually abused him at New Zealand’s Marylands school for boys in Christchurch when he was six-years-old.

“I…