AUSTRALIA
SBS
Source: AAP
18 AUG 2016
A Christian brother accused of sexually abusing a student decades ago has told a court he had no sexual contact with the boy “whatsoever”.
Christopher Rafferty, 65, has pleaded not guilty in the District Court in Sydney to six sex offences from when the boy was aged 14 until he was 16.
They allegedly occurred in the mid-1980s at a school in the NSW town of Goulburn.
On Thursday, the teacher of 43 years was asked under oath if he had had any sexual contact with the student.
“None whatsoever,” he replied.
Rafferty also denied an allegation that he took the boy when he was in year 9 into his bedroom, saying he could not have done such a thing without anyone seeing.
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