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SYDNEY: Two Catholic clergymen,
accused of sexually abusing boys at a Christchurch school, can be extradited
to New Zealand after the full bench of the Australian Federal Court reversed
an earlier court ruling in Sydney today. New Zealand authorities had
appealed an Australian federal court judge's ruling against the extradition. Justice Rodney Madgwick ruled in
April that it would be "unjust and oppressive" to extradite Brother
Rodger Moloney, 71, and Father Raymond Garchow, 59, to New Zealand to face
charges. Christchurch police want the St
John of God order clergymen in court to face allegations they sexually abused
pupils in the 1970s at the former Marylands school, which mainly catered for
intellectually impaired boys. Moloney faces 28 charges of
abusing 12 boys and Garchow four charges during their time teaching at the
school. Both have lived for some years in Sydney and have been fighting
extradition since their arrest in December 2003. |
