GIPPSLAND (AUSTRALIA)
ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
September 3, 2018
By Bridget Rollason
An 80-year-old Catholic brother who sexually abused boys while he was principal of a Gippsland school during the 1970s will serve nine months in jail, after previously receiving suspended sentences for other similar assaults.
Marist Brother Gerard McNamara pleaded guilty in July to seven charges of indecent assault, which took place while he was in charge of St Paul’s Secondary School in Traralgon.
McNamara was in his 30s when he abused the boys, aged between 12 and 15 years old, while giving them “sport massages” in a sports shed at the school, away from the main buildings.
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