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Allegations of Abuse
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A former Salvation Army
officer pleaded not guilty to 23 indecency and rape charges in the High Court
at Timaru yesterday. But at the start of his trial, John Francis Gainsford,
69, of Auckland, pleaded guilty to a further four charges. The trial relates
to alleged offending at the Bramwell Booth Children's Home near Temuka in the
1970s. Gainsford, who was a captain in the church at the time, managed the
home from January 1973 to January 1975.
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