A Catholic Brother is locked up on 252 child-sex charges re 35 alleged victims
On 29 December 2014, a Sydney court refused bail for a former Catholic Brother who is charged with 252 child sexual assaults. Bernard Kevin McGrath
(formerly a member of the St John of God Brothers) is charged with
abusing 35 disabled boys while he worked as a Brother at a Catholic
institution in the Hunter region, north of Sydney, in the 1970s and
1980s. McGrath (born 22 May 1947) is a New Zealand citizen. In November
2011, Australian Police commenced extradition proceedings against
McGrath while he was living in Christchurch, New Zealand. McGrath
resisted the extradition application. In mid-December 2014, the New
Zealand High Court finally authorised McGrath’s extradition to Australia
and he was immediately brought back to Australia in police custody.
