AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By court reporter Sarah Farnsworth
American Marianist Brother Bernard Hartman will stand trial over allegations he abused four children while a teacher at St Paul’s College in Melbourne more than 30 years ago.
Hartman is facing 18 charges, including indecent assault, act of gross indecency and assault dating back to the 1970s and 1980s
It is alleged Brother Hartman sexually assaulted two girls in their homes after he befriended their families.
He is also alleged to have molested two students at the all boys college.
One of his former students told a committal hearing in the Melbourne Magistrates Court, the biology teacher was a “Jekyll and Hyde type of person.”
The court heard he would regularly molest him and then beat him up.
“He was a bit of a sadist,” the man told the court.
“Mostly every time he abused me sexually, he would finish up physically belting me.
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