SYNDEY, Australia, Feb. 14 (UPI) -- A magistrate in Sydney has ruled two of three Roman Catholic clergymen facing sex abuse charges will be extradited to New Zealand.
The Rev. Raymond Garchow and Brother Rodger Maloney of St. John of God Church, were ordered to leave New South Wales to appear in a New Zealand court, TV News Zealand reported.
An order to extradite Brother William Lebler was rejected and New Zealand prosecutors said they have not yet decided whether to appeal the ruling.
The men have been accused of 64 charges, some dating to 1955, when they worked at Marylands -- a school for boys with learning and intellectual disabilities in Christchurch, New Zealand.
At the hearing a year ago in January, one of the lawyers for the defense said all three men were unwell and Garchow is terminally ill with throat cancer.
