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New South Wales Police Force
Former Catholic Brother charged with historical assaults upon two school boys – Strike Force Avia
Thursday, 19 December 2013 12:43:53 AM
Sex Crimes Squad detectives have arrested a former Catholic Brother for alleged historical sexual offences against two children at a western Sydney school.
Strike Force Avia was established in October 2011 to investigate alleged assaults upon a number of children on school grounds at a Catholic college at Blacktown and a Catholic primary school at Lalor Park in the 1980s.
Three men – two teachers and a former Catholic Brother – have previously been arrested and charged by Strike Force Avia detectives.
About 11.30am yesterday (Wednesday 18 December 2013) a fourth man, a former Catholic Brother, was arrested at Penrith Railway Station and taken to Penrith Police Station.
The 58-year-old Lithgow man was charged with 20 offences in total, comprising two counts of buggery, 13 counts of indecent assault on male, and five counts of indecent act with male, relating to offences against two boys aged between nine and 11.
The incidents are alleged to have occurred between January 1980 and May 1981 when the former Brother worked at the Catholic college in Blacktown.
He was refused bail to appear at Penrith Local Court today (Thursday 19 December 2013).
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