AUSTRALIA
ABC News
A Christian Brother and convicted paedophile who abused dozens of boys while working at schools across Victoria has had his jail sentence increased, after the Court of Appeal found it to be inadequate.
Ted Bales, 65, was jailed in March for six years after pleading guilty to indecently assaulting boys, aged between eight and 14, when he was a teacher and headmaster at a number of Christian Brother colleges.
He was given a non-parole period of three years.
But the state’s Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) then launched an appeal against the jail term, arguing it was inadequate.
Court of Appeal today ruled in favour of the DPP and resentenced Bales to eight years and five months’ jail, with a five-year no-parole period.
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