AUSTRALIA
Herald Sun
Peter Mickelburough, state politics reporter
22aug05
A SEX predator sent to live in Victoria from interstate to serve out his parole will not be sent home.
Corrections Commissioner Kelvin Anderson said he had no plans to ask West Australian authorities to take back notorious Perth pedophile Charles Alan Smith.
Last week another WA pedophile, Otto Darcy-Searle, 63, was sent back to Perth after community outcry over his transfer on parole to live with his family in NSW.
Smith, 72, arrived in Victoria in May to live with his daughter after the sister he had been living with in the west since being paroled in February was diagnosed with cancer.
The former Salvation Army major was released after serving less than eight years of a 15-year sentence for 39 offences against boys aged 10-17 between 1964 and 1978.
Corrections Minister Tim Holding, who turned 33 yesterday, was unavailable for comment, sparking Opposition claims he was in hiding after last week's police files fiasco.