AUSTRALIA
The West Australian
[with video]
Tim Clarke
November 7, 2015
Dawid Volmer moved to Australia because God spoke to him very clearly and told him to come.
He did not have a job or any means to support his family when he got here. But he left Singapore and came to Perth anyway, with his wife and two daughters, on the word of the Lord.
In reality, his inner demons were a lot stronger and louder and more persuasive.
This week, those demons that had chased the South African-born Christian since childhood led him into prison as an inmate and an outcast — from his family, from his church and even from the general jail population, which he had once preached to and prayed for.
His crimes — involving the repeated sexual abuse of a teenage girl who was “offered” to him by her own father — have shocked the nation.
How he came to commit them combines his own abusive father, drugs, sex addiction and a double life spanning many years and four continents.
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