AUSTRALIA
NEWS.com.au
By Natasha Robinson and Amanda Banks
August 22, 2005
THE Victorian Government yesterday admitted it could not guarantee children would be safe from one of the nation's worst serial child-sex offenders who has been allowed to relocate from Western Australia to Victoria.
Former Salvation Army captain Charles Alan Smith's Perth-based relatives, who believe he is still a danger, have warned he is even more likely to reoffend since being allowed to move to Victoria under a parole transfer scheme.
"He is such a slimebucket," said one relative, who refused to be named.
Smith, now in his 70s, was released from a Perth jail earlier this year after serving less than eight years of a 15-year sentence for 39 sex offences committed against boys aged 10 to 17 between 1964 and 1978.
Victoria's Corrections Commissioner Kelvin Anderson acknowledged there was no certainty the pedophile would not reoffend.