VICTORIA (AUSTRALIA)
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
May 15, 2020
By Kellie Lazzaro
Key points:
— McNamara indecently assaulted more than 15 young boys between 1970 and 1975
— He will serve seven months in prison after pleading guilty to four charges of indecent assault and one count of common assault
— McNamara worked as headmaster and sports master at St Paul’s Catholic College in Traralgon, Victoria where students nicknamed him The Rat
Marist brother Gerard Joseph McNamara, 82, has begun his second stint in prison after pleading guilty to indecently assaulting Traralgon school boys in the 1970s.
McNamara was working at St Paul’s Catholic College in Traralgon when he indecently assaulted more than 15 students between 1970 and 1975.
He abused his victims while giving them massages in the monastery, his office and a sports equipment shed, and many were targeted multiple times.
Many of the abused boys were known as victims and ridiculed by their peers.
McNamara was sentenced in the Victorian County Court today to 35 months in prison, with 28 months suspended, after pleading guilty to four charges of indecent assault and one count of common assault.
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