AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By Gian De Poloni
A man charged with raping a seven-year-old girl at a Christian mission in Western Australia’s South West more than 40 years ago has pleaded not guilty to six child abuse charges.
Philip Howard Street, 74, is accused of sexually assaulting the girl multiple times while he was employed at the Roelands Christian Mission near Collie in 1974 and 1975.
The mission was once home to hundreds of Stolen Generations’ children, with about 500 Aboriginal children housed there from the 1940s to the 1970s.
In February, Street was charged by a specialist police taskforce acting on allegations that came to light during the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
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