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A High Court Jury in
Christchurch will begin a third day of deliberations today in the trial of
former Catholic brother Bernard Kevin McGrath on historic child-sex charges. McGrath, 58, denies 44
charges; of sodomy and indecency relating to 15 boys who were at Marylands, a
residential school on the outskirts of Christchurch, run by the St John of
God Order, in the mid-1970s. After about 17 hours of
deliberation over two days, the jury was again sent to a hotel for the night. McGrath pleaded guilty
at the start of the trial three weeks ago to one charge of indecency for a
16th Marylands boy. The jury has also been told he was jailed in the
mid-1990s for sexually abusing other Marylands boys in the 1970s and other
boys when he was working in Christchurch in the early 1990s. |
