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	Sex Case Ex-priest to Be Watched By Louise Hall The Courier July 22, 2011 http://www.camdencourier.com.au/news/national/national/general/sex-case-expriest-to-be-watched/2234597.aspx A FORMER Anglican priest who sexually abused young girls over four decades has been banned from having contact with children and using the internet for three years after a court found he was at high risk of reoffending if not kept under supervision. The serial paedophile Robert Ellmore, who in 2001 became the first Anglican priest to be defrocked since the 1880s, was released from prison in December after serving a nine-year sentence for indecently assaulting three girls ages eight, 10 and 12. He was found to have abused his position of trust in the early 1980s when he interfered with a 10-year-old girl during confirmation classes and later abused a 12-year-old girl when he visited her home. He was on parole in 2001 for child sex offences committed in the mid-1970s when he indecently assaulted the eight-year-old daughter of a couple he had befriended. Yesterday in the NSW Supreme Court, Justice Megan Latham placed Mr Ellmore, 73, on a three-year extended supervision order under the Crimes (Serious Sex Offenders) Act. The order means he cannot change his hairstyle or colour or his facial hair, join or attend a club or group, use the internet, or have a sexual relationship with anyone without the approval of Corrective Services NSW. He cannot have contact with children under 16, unless in the presence of an adult approved by the authorities and is not allowed near schools, day care centres, caravan parks, children's playgrounds, parks and playing fields. Justice Latham rejected an application for a non-publication order on Ellmore's name.
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