AUSTRALIA
Sky News
An American Catholic brother who abused two little girls in Melbourne after gaining their parents’ trust will spend the next two years behind bars.
Marianist Brother Bernard Joseph Hartman, now 75, was invited into family homes for dinner while he was a teacher and counsellor at the then-St Paul’s College in the 1970s.
He sexually abused two little girls, younger siblings of students, at their homes in the mid to late 1970s.
One girl, aged under 10, was assaulted after Hartman drew pictures with her.
Hartman once used a turkey baster filled with liquid to violate the other girl.
“You have breached the trust of those young girls with blatant offending in their homes which … allowed little avenue for retreat,” Victorian County Court Judge James Parrish said as he sentenced Hartman on Friday.
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