The Press
July 22, 2003
Case waits on police files disclosure
by David Clarkson
Justin Todd Richardson, charged with making a false complaint of sexual abuse
against a former brother at Marylands School, was further remanded on bail
for a fortnight when he appeared in the Christchurch District Court
yesterday.
Defence counsel Gerald Lascelles told Judge Jane McMeeken that he was still
waiting for disclosure of the police files on the case.
He said he was also awaiting two preliminary medical reports on Richardson, a
34-year-old foundry worker. Judge McMeeken granted the request for continued
bail for Richardson's
remand.
Richardson has been charged with making a false
complaint, and with obtaining a $95,000 "pastoral gesture" from St
John of God by a false pretence -- alleging he had been sexually abused while
at Marylands.
The school was run by the St John of God order.
The former brother, Bernard Kevin McGrath, 56, who faces about 30 sexual
abuse charges, has been granted a registrar's remand on bail to appear at a
depositions hearing in early October.
The charges against him allege sodomy and indecencies committed against boys
aged under 16 at the school from 1968 to 1984, the year the school closed.
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