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Hato Paora College, 1984

 

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2005-1104 - Otago Daily Times - Ex-teacher on sex charges
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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.

2005-1103 - Newstalk ZB - Former clergyman gets bail
Bail has been granted to a retired Catholic clergyman charged with sexually assaulting teenage boys. John Stevenson appeared in the Lower Hutt District Court this morning. He has been charged with six counts of indecent assault and one of inducing a boy to do an indecent act

2005-1103 - Newstalk ZB - Man faces sexual abuse charges
Another former employee of a Catholic boys' school in Feilding is facing sexual abuse charges. A 66-year-old retired member of the Catholic Church will appear in the Lower Hutt District Court today. He has been charged with six counts of indecent assault and one of inducing a boy to do an indecent act.

2005-1103 - One News - Hato Paora teacher charged with abuse
A retired Catholic teacher has appeared in court charged with sexual abuse at a Manawatu school in the late 1970s and early 1980s. John Stevenson, 66, is charged with six counts of indecent assault and one of inducing a boy to perform a sexual act. According to the charges, the assaults were against three pupils aged between 14 and 16, while the accused - also known as Brother Bernard - was a teacher at Hato Paora Maori Boys Catholic school in Feilding

2005-1103 - Stuff - Catholic teacher in court on sexual abuse charges
A former teacher at a Catholic boys' school near Feilding appeared in Lower Hutt District Court today on sexual abuse charges. The 66-year-old retired man has been charged with six counts of indecent assault and one of inducing a boy to do an indecent act

2005-1103 - NZ Herald - School teacher in court on sexual abuse charges
NZPA - A former teacher at a Catholic boys' school near Feilding appeared in Lower Hutt District Court today on sexual abuse charges. The man, 66-year-old John Louis Stevenson, has been charged with six counts of indecent assault and one of inducing a boy to do an indecent act.

2005-1103 - Dominion Post - New arrest over abuse at school
A retired Catholic brother has been charged with sexually abusing boys at a Maori secondary school. The Wellington man, 66, is the second former worker at Hato Paora, a Catholic Maori secondary school at Feilding, to be charged with sexual abuse.

2005-1102 - Newstalk ZB - Sexual abuse prompts police appeal
Police want to speak to past and present students of a Feilding Maori boys college, after a second former employee was charged with sexual abuse. A 66-year-old retired member of the Catholic Church has been charged with sex offences committed in the 1970s and 80s

2005-1102 - Newstalk ZB - Sex charges against ex-Catholic Church member
A retired member of the Catholic Church has been arrested and charged with sexually abusing pupils. It is alleged it happened at Hato Paora Maori boys secondary school in Fielding in the 1970s and 1980s

2005-0827 - Dominion Post - Churchman jailed for sex abuse
A retired Catholic brother who has been jailed for 2-1/2 years for sexually abusing sick and vunerable boys in his care was sent on a six-month course by the Church after admitting the abuse.  Yesterday, a judge in Wellington District Court was told that the Catholic Church, which Brother Andrew Cody had devoted his life to, had known about his offending for years. Judge Bruce Davidson said Cody had told his superiors about the abuse several years after he retired in 1991

2005-0827 - Evening Standard - Former brother jailed
Former Hato Paora Boys' School Catholic brother David Cody received a four-year jail term for historic sexual abuse charges in Wellington District Court yesterday

2005-0512 - Dominion Post - Former brother pleads guilty to indecent acts on boy
A retired Catholic brother charged last August with indecently assaulting a school pupil 20 years ago has pleaded guilty. Andrew Cody, 67, and in poor health, lives in Upper Hutt. He admitted in Upper Hutt District Court yesterday three charges of indecent assault and one of permitting an indecent act. The offences involved a 15-year-old boy at Hato Paora College, a Maori Boys Catholic school at Feilding, in 1984. The guilty pleas were an 11th-hour deal in return for other charges being withdrawn.

2004-0724 - Dominion Post - Retired brother in court on sex charges
A retired Catholic brother has appeared in Upper Hutt District Court on charges of committing indecencies on a school pupil 20 years ago.  The 67-year-old brother was given interim name suppression by Judge Phillip Connell yesterday. After the hearing, the defendant was bundled out through a side door and driven off by a court attendant

2004-0723 - Newstalk ZB - Identity of teacher facing sex charges suppressed
Name suppression continues for a man accused of sexually molesting a boy while teaching in a Catholic school. The 67-year-old appeared in Upper Hutt District Court this morning on six charges of indecent assault

2004-0720 - One News - Hato Paora sex offender charged
Police have arrested and charged a former Catholic brother with the historical sexual abuse of a student at Hato Paora College in Fielding…. Detective Constable John Fagan says police would like to hear from anyone who was at Hato Paora in the 1980s and who may have any information which could help the investigation. The latest case follows the sentencing of former Catholic priest Alan Woodcock last month to seven years in prison for the sex abuse of teenage boys

2004-0720 - Dominion Post - Ex-brother on sex charges
A former Catholic brother living in Upper Hutt has been arrested and charged with committing repeated sexual indecencies on a boy at a Feilding boarding school 20 years ago….. Mr Fagan said the complainant, who was 15 years old at the time of the alleged assaults, came forward at the end of last year.

2004-0719 - Stuff - Former Catholic brother arrested
NZPA -
Upper Hutt police have arrested and charged a former Catholic Brother in relation to a complaint of historic sexual indecencies on a male student. The allegations relate to incidents at Hato Paora College near Feilding in 1984

2004-0719 - Newstalk ZB - Two-decade old complaint leads to arrest
A former Catholic Brother has been arrested over a 20-year-old sexual indecency complaint made by a high school student. The 67-year-old Upper Hutt man will appear in court next week. The sexual indecencies were allegedly made on a male student at Feilding's Hato Paora College in 1984