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	Former Priest to Be Placed on Sex Offenders Register ABC News April 7, 2008 http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/04/07/2210242.htm?site=idx-tas A former Tasmanian Anglican priest and convicted paedophile will be put on the sex offenders register for 8 years. 62-year-old Garth Stephen Hawkins will be listed on the register when he's released from prison. In 2003, Hawkins was sentenced to seven and half years in jail for abusing seven teenage boys in the 1970s and 1980s. In 2004 he was sentenced to a further nine months prison for molesting another teenage boy in the 1980s. Earlier this year police applied to the Magistrates Court to have the former priest placed on Tasmania's sex offenders register. Magistrate Glenn Hay ordered Hawkins to have a forensic mental health assessment before he made a decision. This morning Mr Hay, granted the application.
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