Former Catholic Brother to be Sent to Australia to Face 250 Charges of Sexually Abusing Children
A High Court judge today backed a decision by the New Zealand Government to extradite a former Catholic brother to Australia to face 250 charges of child-sex abuse charges. Australia requested the extradition of Bernard Kevin McGrath, 66, in
November 2012 alleging that he raped, molested and abused dozens of
young boys at one of Australia’s most prominent Catholic religious
orders – the St John of God Brothers between 1977 and 1986. According to
court evidence the institution which specialized in accommodating boys,
many of whom had intellectual disabilities, had an entrenched culture
of sexual abuse.
