NSW: Religious brother collapses in jail before bail hearing

AAP General News (Australia)
02-18-2005
NSW: Religious brother collapses in jail before bail hearing

A man awaiting extradition to New Zealand on child sex charges has collapsed in jail
shortly before a bail application in his case.

Brother RODGER MALONEY, who's 69, is said to have collapsed this morning in Sydney's
Silverwater jail.

He and Catholic priest Father RAYMOND JOHN GARCHOW, 59, face a total of 32 sex assault charges.

They are accused of sodomising and indecently assaulting boys as young as eight at
the Marylands School in Christchurch between 1966 and 1979.

Earlier this week the Downing Centre Local Court ordered the pair be handed over to
NZ authorities.

MALONEY'S solicitor GREG WALSH has told the court his client collapsed at Sydney's
Silverwater jail as he prepared to leave for this morning's bail hearing.

Mr WALSH says MALONEY'S condition is unclear.

MALONEY and GARCHOW, who have had prostate and throat cancer respectively, have been
granted conditional bail by Justice RODNEY MADGWICK.

The extradition hearing will continue on April the 11th.





((EDS: Reissuing to correct name of court in paragraph five))



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