Catholic brother accused of sex abuse in US convicted of child sex offenses in Australia
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}A Catholic brother accused of sex abuse in the U.S. has been convicted in Australia of a string of decades-old child sex offenses.
Bernard Hartman was accused of abusing four children in the 1970s and 1980s, when he worked as a teacher at St Paul's College, a secondary school in Melbourne.
Harman returned to Australia from the U.S. to face the charges at three separate trials.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}He pleaded guilty in Victoria state County Court to four counts of indecent assault against two girls. In a separate trial, he was convicted of one charge of indecent assault and two charges of common law assault against a man who had once been his student. Last week, he was found not guilty to a charge of indecent assault against another man.