PITTSBURGH (PA)
Tribune-Review
By Michael Hasch
Thursday, May 14, 2015
A Marianist brother will be sentenced in Australia for his conviction on charges of sexually abusing three children in Melbourne, an Australian newspaper reported this week.
Brother Bernard Joseph Hartman, 75, who once taught science at the former North Catholic High School in Troy Hill, pleaded guilty to four counts of indecent assault and was convicted on an additional count of indecent assault and two counts of common law assault, the Maribyrnong & Hobsons Bay Star Weekly reported Tuesday.
Hartman was charged in Melbourne with sexually abusing two boys and two girls in the 1970s and 80s.
He pleaded guilty to molesting two girls between the ages of 8 and 11, the newspaper reported. He was convicted of molesting one of the boys in the 1980s and acquitted of abusing the second.
Hartman is a former biology teacher at North Catholic, now known as Cardinal Wuerl North Catholic High School in Cranberry.
Note: This is an Abuse Tracker excerpt. Click the title to view the full text of the original article. If the original article is no longer available, see our News Archive.