NZ Herald
May 12, 2004

Sydney abuse case ruling
NZPA

A Sydney judge yesterday ruled that the delay in filing sex abuse charges against three clergymen was not sufficient to stop a hearing to extradite them to New Zealand.

The allegations date back to 1955.

All three accused are members of St John of God, a Catholic order that ran the Marylands school in Christchurch from 1955 until its closure in 1984.

Its first students were orphans, but most of its latter pupils had learning or intellectual disabilities.

The accused are aged 82, 68 and 56. They moved to Sydney after the school's closure, but New Zealand police now want them to face 64 charges of sexual abuse.