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Allegations of Abuse
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A former Salvation Army captain on
trial for alleged sex offences in the 1970s has entered guilty pleas to four
charges. John Francis Gainsford, 69, faced
a total of twenty-seven charges ranging from indecent assault to rape in
relation to eight complainants. At the start of his trial at the
High Court in Timaru, he pleaded guilty to three charges of indecent assault,
and one of inducing an indecent act, relating to three complainants. He pleaded not guilty to the
remaining 23 charges. The indecencies are alleged to have happened between
January 1973 and January 1975 to children at the Bramwell Booth children's
home in Temuka near Timaru. The trial is set down for two
weeks.
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