AUSTRALIA
Guardian
Australian Associated Press
theguardian.com, Tuesday 14 October 2014
Parents of children allegedly abused over a 10-year period by a serial paedophile at a pentecostal primary school were told to take the matter up with the abuser, an inquiry has heard.
Kenneth Sandilands was accused of abusing up to 30 children at the Northside Christian College in Bundoora, Melbourne, between 1983 and 1992.
The school ran under the auspices of the pentecostal Northside Christian Centre when Denis Smith was senior pastor.
The royal commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse is looking at how the pentecostal movement and the school handled allegations against Sandilands, who was jailed in 2000 for two years for sexually abusing eight children at the school.
On Tuesday, Smith said he did not construe warnings given to Sandilands in 1986 and 1987 to be about “anything of a sexual nature”.
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