AUSTRALIA
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19:05 AEST Wed Jun 8 2005
AAP
The Seventh-day Adventist Church apologised and offered to discuss compensation with any alleged victims of a church leader charged over a string of child sexual assaults in northern NSW.
The 57-year-old Banora Point man was a youth leader with the Seventh-day Adventist Church at Tweed Heads, Kingscliff and Tumbulgum between 1970 and 2005.
He is charged with seven counts of aggravated indecent assault, five of aggravated sexual assault and one of committing an aggravated act of indecency in northern NSW dating back to 1972, police said.
The man has been remanded into custody and is due to appear in Lismore Local Court on July 5.
Posted by kshaw at June 8, 2005 07:57 AM