Brother Bartholomew Spratt
Peter Richard Spratt was born 2 August 1937. Upon joining the Marist Brothers, he adopted the religious name of Brother ”Bartholomew". Brother Bartholomew Spratt taught at the following schools in NSW and ACT:
St Carthage Primary School, Lismore;
Marist Brothers Pagewood (now known as Champagnat Catholic College Pagewood).
In 1996 he pleaded guilty to two acts of indecency against a 14-year-old Marist College Canberra boy. The offences where committed in 1979 at a Marist Brothers’ residence at, Byron Bay, NSW, and at a holiday centre in Jindabyne, NSW. Consequently, Brother Spratt was only placed on a $2,000, two-year good-behaviour bond.
A magistrate at Cooma Local Court in southern New South Wales placed Peter Richard Spratt on a $2,000, two-year good-behaviour bond.
The Royal Commission during its investigations into institutional child sexual abuse in Australia heard from a former victim of Brother Spratt who described him as being vindictive and abusive.
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