AUCKLAND (NEW ZEALAND)
New Zealand Herald
June 5, 2020
An 81-year-old Catholic brother and schoolteacher from Napier has been sentenced to a second term of home detention for sexually abusing children when he was teaching in Masterton more than 40 years ago.
Kevin Peter John Healy was sentenced in Napier District Court today on five charges of indecency in the 1970s, involving a girl aged 8 or 9, and her brother and another boy who were at the time aged 12 and 13.
At least four victims have now been identified, with offending having first come to light in 2016, leading to Healy’s first convictions and home detention sentence the following year. for offences with a boy in 1981-82.
He was later charged with the offences which were before the court today, at one stage seeking a stay of prosecution because of his age, initially pleading not guilty and claiming no memory of the offending.
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