More Complaints on Vic Christian Brother

SBS
August 29, 2014

http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2014/08/29/more-complaints-vic-christian-brother

Four more people have made complaints against a former Christian Brother charged with child sex offences, a Victorian court has heard.

Ted Bales, 64, already faces 48 charges of indecent assault and gross indecency against 14 boys in the 1970s and 1980s.

But another four people have come forward to make complaints against Bales including one based interstate, the prosecution told the Melbourne Magistrates Court on Friday.

The court heard police were still waiting on statements from the new complainants.

Bales, of Thomastown, was stationed with the Christian Brothers at Ballarat and Warrnambool, a previous court hearing was told.

Bales was arrested by the Sano task force, established by police to investigate historic and new allegations arising from the Victorian parliamentary inquiry into child sex abuse.

The case was adjourned until September 19.