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By Jane Sims, QMI Agency
GODERICH, ONT. – A United Church minister said he forked over $26,000 to a man accusing him of childhood sexual abuse to keep the allegations from going public.
“False allegations of sexual abuse when they go forward destroy people’s lives,” said David Woodall, 56, at his Superior Court trial.
Woodall, the former executive secretary of the London, Ont., Conference of the United Church of Canada, flatly denied Wednesday morning he sexually abused two boys by putting his hand down their sleeping bags. The boys were at a sleepover at a Clinton, Ont., church two decades ago.
He said he didn’t remember either boy at one of the Clinton church’s youth group annual sleepover between 1991 and 1993.
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