AUSTRALIA
Broken Rites
By a Broken Rites researcher (posted 28 July 2014)
Police allege that a Christian Brother, William Edwin Marchant, sexually abused a seven-year-old child who was visiting a Catholic school in Western Australia in the 1970s. Marchant, who is no longer a member of the Christian Brothers, made a brief appearance in Broome Magistrates Court on 28 July 2014.
Marchant, now aged 77, is accused of indecently dealing with a boy at the Christian Brothers Agricultural School near Tardun in Western Australia’s mid-west.
The offences are alleged to have occurred between 1970 and 1971 when the seven-year-old boy regularly attended social events at the school.
Police allege that, during these events, the boy was indecently assaulted by Marchant, who was a Christian Brother at the time.
Marchant is facing two counts of indecently dealing with a boy under 14 years.
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