AUSTRALIA
Australian Associated Press
December 7, 2017
By Rick Goodman
A former Melbourne schoolteacher has been jailed for four years for sexually abusing boys in his care.
A former Melbourne schoolteacher who sexually abused schoolboys under his care decades ago could walk from jail in a year.
Vili Kovac, 85, raped a boy during a school camp while teaching at Marcellin College and abused another boy while working as an athletics coach at Xavier College.
The assaults occurred in the 1960s when the boys were aged 12 or 13 and attending the Catholic schools.
Kovac was on Thursday jailed for four years for buggery and indecent assault.
He denied the buggery charge, which went to trial during which the victim had to recount to a jury the school camp attack.
The rape occurred in a tent at night during a camp Kovac was supervising at Wilson’s Promontory, the victim said.
“He described waking up to a hand over his mouth,” Victorian County Court Judge Susan Cohen said.
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