AUSTRALIA
Maitland Mercury
By NICK BIELBY Aug. 9, 2015
The former Marist Brother who was the cause of an apology to a Hunter abuse victim last week terrorised students while he was the headmaster of a Maitland Catholic school in the 1970s, a former student says.
Fairfax Media reported on Saturday that the Marist Brothers issued a formal apology to Patrick Garnham as part of a settlement over his sexual abuse at the hands of Brother Nestor at Marist Maitland in 1976, when Mr Garnham was 11.
Brother Nestor, also known as John Littler, was the school’s principal at the time he committed the abuse.
Vacy man Peter Gogarty, who was sexually abused by paedophile priest James Fletcher in the 1970s, also attended the school when Brother Nestor was principal.
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