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Disgraced former Catholic
brother Bernard Kevin McGrath has been jailed for five years -- his third
prison term for the sexual abuse of boys. At a sentencing
following a four-week trial in the High Court at In setting the length
of the jail term, he had to take into account a 1993 jail term imposed on
McGrath in The latest offending
was against boys at Defence counsel Raoul
Neave said the regime at the school at the time had been for severe physical
punishment to be meted out to maintain discipline, but he pointed out the
jury had accepted that there had been exaggeration of some of the claims. The jury had found
McGrath guilty on 21 indecency charges and not guilty on 22 charges. He had
pleaded guilty to one charge and 10 were ruled out by the judge during the
course of the trial. Justice Chisholm was
sentencing McGrath on 13 charges of indecent assault, eight charges of
inducing an indecent act, and one charge of doing an indecent act. Full coverage in The
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