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Blacktown Advocate
Patrician Brothers Blacktown former Brother Martin Harmata and teacher charged over child sex abuse
by BEN McCLELLAN and AAP
A FORMER Patrician Brothers Catholic Brother, Martin Harmata, and teacher who both allegedly sexually abused the same 13-year-old boy did so on separate occasions and were not working together, the head of an investigation into the 25-year-old allegations said today.
The two men were charged on Monday night with numerous child sex offences allegedly committed against an eight-year-old girl in 1985 and two 13-year-old boys in 1987.
All three were allegedly abused on school grounds at the Blacktown college and a Lalor Park primary school.
Sex Crimes squad Acting Superintendent Michael Haddow dismissed allegations from a former priest an alleged paedophile ring was operating at Patrician Brothers, but investigations were continuing and he didn’t rule out further arrests.
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