An ACT man has been charged over historic sexual abuse allegations at Berkshire Park’s Daruk Training School, the fourth arrest to be made this year.
Officers from the Australian Federal Police, accompanied by NSW strike force detectives, arrested an 81-year-old man at a home at Ainslie in the ACT about midday today (Wednesday, June 27), a NSW Police statement said.
“The suspect has been taken to the ACT Watchhouse where he remains in custody, charged by virtue of a court warrant with 11 counts of indecent assault on a male and four counts of buggery,” the statement said.
“He is expected to face the ACT Magistrates Court tomorrow where Nepean detectives will seek his extradition to NSW.
“It’s the fourth arrest this year in relation to the abuse that allegedly occurred at the Daruk Training School at Berkshire Park, near Windsor, between 1965 and 1985.”
The Nepean Police Area Command formed Strike Force Eckersley in late 2016 to investigate a series of complaints referred by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
