VIDEO: Another Christian Brother charged in New South Wales

Broken Rites
March 4, 2015

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At 8.05am on 4 March 2015, police arrested and charged a Christian Brother in Sydney regarding sexual and indecent assaults upon children. Police allege that the offences were committed three decades ago at Goulburn, in south-western New South Wales.

The detectives arrested the 63-year-old man at an address in Victoria Road, Ryde, a Sydney suburb. Until a few days before the arrest, he was working at a Catholic school in Chatswood (in suburban Sydney).

The offences allegedly occurred upon one boy aged between 13 and 17, while the man was a Christian Brother at a Catholic school in Goulburn between 1984 and 1987.

He was taken to Ryde Police Station, where he was charged with:

• two counts of indecent assault;
• two counts of sexual assault;
• three counts of homosexual intercourse with a pupil; and
• one count of committing an act of indecency.

He is the fourth Christian Brother to be arrested by a special unit of NSW Police detectives (called Strike Force Charish), which was formed in February 2014, to investigate allegations of child-sex offences said to have occurred between 1978 and 1989 at a Catholic college in Goulburn involving numerous victims. This unit it located at the Goulburn Detectives Office.

Other Christian Brothers are currently before the courts on charges regarding children in Goulburn.

• The New South Wales Police media unit has issued still photos, plus some video footage, of detectives taking the man to the Ryde police station. The photos and the video footage can been seen on the website of the Goulburn Post newspaper (the still photos are towards the top of the page and the video footage is towards the bottom). To see this material, click HERE.