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WA man denies raping 7yo girl at Roelands Christian Mission

By Gian De Poloni
ABC News
May 23, 2016

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-05-23/man-denies-raping-girl-at-roelands-christian-mission-wa/7437828

Hundreds of Aboriginal children were taken to the mission near Collie in the South West.

A man charged with raping a seven-year-old girl at a Christian mission in Western Australia's South West more than 40 years ago has pleaded not guilty to six child abuse charges.

Philip Howard Street, 74, is accused of sexually assaulting the girl multiple times while he was employed at the Roelands Christian Mission near Collie in 1974 and 1975.

The mission was once home to hundreds of Stolen Generations' children, with about 500 Aboriginal children housed there from the 1940s to the 1970s.

In February, Street was charged by a specialist police taskforce acting on allegations that came to light during the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.

Street pleaded not guilty to two counts of rape and four counts of indecent treatment of a child under 14 years of age when he appeared at Bunbury Magistrates Court.

He was released on bail until his next court appearance in August.




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