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Allegations of Abuse in Institutions |
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Wellington: A former teacher at a Catholic boys’ school
near Feilding appeared in the Lower Hutt District Court yesterday on sexual
abuse charges. The man, John Louis Stevenson (66), has been charged with
six counts of indecent assault and one of inducing a boy to do an indecent
act. The offending is alleged to have occurred in the 1970s and
1980s while he was teaching at Hato Paora College. The retired man has been remanded on bail until December
1. His arrest came as part of an investigation by Upper Hutt
police earlier this year which resulted in former brother Andrew Cody being
jailed for two and a-half years for sexually abusing sick and vulnerable boys
in his care at the same Catholic boys’ school. Cody (67), who lived in Upper Hutt, pleaded guilty to two
charges of indecent assault, one of doing an indecent act and one of
permitting an indecent act to be done on him between 1981 and 1984. Police would still like to hear from anyone who might have
confidential information about sexual abuse at the college. |
