Christian Brother Ted Bales
Title: Former Christian Brother Ted Bales admits to abusing another 19 children
Author: Adam Cooper
Publisher: The Age
Date: 11Jun2021
Convicted paedophile and former Christian Brother Ted Bales has pleaded guilty to abusing 19 children in the 1970s and 1980s, bringing to 50 his total number of confirmed victims.Bales on Friday entered a plea of guilty through his lawyer to 33 charges of indecent assault in Melbourne Magistrates Court, related to 19 victims. The charges represent a series of offences against his victims as prosecutors withdrew dozens of other individual charges.
Bales, 71, who was formerly known as Edward Dowlan until he changed his surname by deed poll, was a teacher and dormitory supervisor at schools in Melbourne, Ballarat, Geelong and Warrnambool in the 1970s and 1980s, where the attacks took place. He was a Christian Brother until he left the order in 2008.
The charges he pleaded guilty to on Friday relate to offending in Melbourne’s northern suburbs, in Ballarat and in and around Geelong.
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