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	'Rehabilitated' Paedophile Jailed over Church Camp Abuse ABC [Australia] April 3, 2007 http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200704/s1888474.htm A former church youth camp leader has been jailed for at least four years for the sexual abuse of young boys more than 20 years ago. The Adelaide Supreme Court judge said she had no option but to jail Trevor John Russell, despite acknowledging that he had already been "fully rehabilitated". Russell admitted sexually abusing nine boys in the 1970s and 80s, some of whom he had been trusted to take care of at church youth camps. Justice Margaret Nyland said the 57-year-old had served a prison sentence for other child sex offences in the late 1980s and had left jail "genuinely" rehabilitated. Justice Nyland said Russell had not offended for more than 20 years and was unlikely to ever do so again. But she said his crimes had devastated many young lives and were too serious to suspend the prison term. Russell will be eligible for parole after serving four years of his nine year sentence.
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