Disgraced Church Chairman Admits New Sex Offenders Breaches

The Citizen
June 16, 2012

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A DISGRACED church committee chairman, jailed for sexually abusing a child in 2006, faces a return to prison for picking up a 12-year-old girl in his car.

Father-of-three Koon Pang, of Barnwood Avenue, Gloucester, pleaded guilty to breaching a sex offenders' protection order "on numerous occasions" by giving the girl lifts in his car.

The 51-year-old polio victim, who walks with the aid of a stick, was banned from being in the company of any child under the age of 17 unless parents or guardians were present.

Prosecuting solicitor Sharon Jomaa told city magistrates on Tuesday: "The defendant is a registered sex offender and the father of the girl had concerns because his daughter and another young girl had been seen in a car with the defendant on a number of occasions. The daughter was interviewed and told police that between October 2011 and December 2011 the defendant had given her lifts on numerous occasions.

"This was a deliberate failure to comply with the conditions of the order."

Defending solicitor Lucy Beale said: "Although there were numerous breaches over this period there is significant mitigation which will be given at the next hearing."

Magistrates declined jurisdiction and Pang will be sentenced at Gloucester Crown Court on July 3.

He was granted conditional bail.

In June 2006 Pang was jailed for 21 months for grooming a 14-year-old girl for sex and getting her to perform an indecent act for him over an internet webcam.

Pang indulged in filthy conversations in a chatroom, then persuaded the girl to perform the act for him over the webcam.

Judge Jamie Tabor heard Pang, who was sacked from his job in the city council's IT department, met the girl, who thought he was an elder in the church, in April 2005.

Disgrace

Pang, who was a chairman of an administrative committee, left the church in disgrace.

The defendant had touched the girl's breasts and kissed her even before he began to chat to her online.

Pang, who had no previous convictions, was cleared by a jury of having unlawful sexual intercourse with the girl, but admitted seven counts related to sexually abusing her.

These were counts of sexual activity with a child, causing or inciting a child to engage in sexual activity, engaging in sexual activity in the presence of a child and four offences of keeping indecent computer images of the girl.