AUSTRALIA
Brisbane Times
October 13, 2014
Annette Blackwell
A primary school teacher given two severe warnings about inappropriate touching of children continued to teach for another six years at the same Pentecostal school, an inquiry has heard.
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse is examining how a Pentecostal church and its school handled complaints against Kenneth Sandilands, who taught there from 1983 to 1992.
Sandilands was jailed in 2000 for two years for offences against eight boys and girls at Northside Christian College at Bundoora in the northern suburbs of Melbourne.
In September 2014 he was sent back to jail for 26 months on a further six counts of indecent assault at St Paul’s Anglican primary School in Frankston, Victoria, where he had worked in the 1970s.
Denis Smith, senior pastor at the Northside Christian Life Centre church which ran the school, said on Monday the then-principal Ken Ellery investigated allegations against Sandilands in December 1986.
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