AUSTRALIA
Australian Associated Press
July 13, 2018
The dark past of a man, thought to be a model citizen, has caught up to the 65-year-old and landed him a jail sentence for six child sex offences committed in the late 1980s.
For the past 25 years, Gordon Lloyd Adams had appeared to be a pillar of his Queensland community.
A Gympie Salvation Army volunteer, he was also a supporter of the local rural fire service. Adams was even once the town’s nominee for Australian Senior Citizen of the Year.
But it was revealed in Brisbane District Court on Friday, that he was far from a model citizen, when he was sentenced to six-and-a-half years behind bars.
Adams pleaded guilty in May to the offences committed in Deception Bay, including the rape of a nine-year-old girl, after the victim came forward in 2016.
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