AUSTRALIA
Northern Rivers Echo
Mark Furler 17th Mar 2014
A SUNSHINE Coast church accused of failing to take action against the man who killed Daniel Morcombe says it has removed four pedophiles from its congregation in recent years.
Two of those were sent to jail.
And a senior police officer, who has worked for more than 15 years in child protection and also attends the large Woombye church, said hundreds of registered sex offenders were living on the Sunshine Coast and thousands more across Queensland.
In 2011, during the Daniel Morcombe inquest, police revealed they had more than 500 new persons of interest in relation to Daniel.
At the time of Daniel’s disappearance there were reports, which police refused to confirm at the time, of more than 70 registered pedophiles in the Palmwoods-Woombye area.
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