AUSTRALIA
The Age
March 27, 2015
Mark Russell
A former Christian Brother who was part of a notorious paedophile ring involving the clergy in Ballarat has been jailed for a minimum of three years for abusing 20 young boys.
County Court judge Richard Smith said on Friday that Ted Dowlan, who changed his name by deed poll to Bales in 2011, had preyed on vulnerable boys as young as eight years old over a 14-year period at six different schools from the first year he became a Christian Brother in 1971.
Judge Smith said Dowlan had been in a position of authority and trust and believed he had “some right of entitlement” to abuse the boys in appalling circumstances because he had power over them and they were unable to resist him.
The judge described Dowlan’s offending as brazen and said he did not believe he was remorseful.
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