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Radio NZ
October 16 2006; 13:17

Similarities in cases

The crown in the trial of a former Salvation army captain has told the jury there are similarities in the alleged cases of historic sexual offending.

69 year old John Francis Gainsford, denies 23 charges ranging from indecent assault to rape against six girls and one boy at the Bramwell Booth childrens home in Temuka in the 1970s