NEW ZEALAND
Radio New Zealand
Posted at 11:16am on 22 Dec 2005
A former Catholic teacher was today sentenced to three and a half years prison for sexual abusing four boys at a Manawatu boarding school.
John Louis Stevenson, who was known at the time of the offending as Brother Bernard; pleaded guilty to six charges of indecent assault and one of inducing a 14 year old boy to commit an indecent act between 1976 - 1981.
66 year old Stevenson was a teacher at the Hato Paora Maori Boys Catholic School in Fielding near Palmerston North.