Bernard McGrath

Bernard Kevin McGrath is the most notorious paedophile in one of the most notorious Catholic religious orders in the world McGrath is currently in a maximum security prison in Australia serving a 39 year prison sentence for the sexual abuse of scores of young boys in Australia and New Zealand His religious order the Brothers of St John of God knew about McGraths offending as far back as the 1970s but didnt report him to the police Instead they moved him from New Zealand to Australia and then to the United States in a desperate attempt to avoid police investigations He was finally arrested in 1993 and has been in prison ever since McGrath was one of many paedophiles in the Order of St John of God His 2019 criminal trial was documented in the documentary series Revelation and presenter Sarah Ferguson interviewed McGrath inside the maximum security prison During his interview he confessed that the order had concealed his sexual abuse and named the superiors responsible for concealing his prolific abuse The Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Response to Child Sexual Abuse found that over 40 of the Brothers of the Order of St John of God were alleged paedophiles