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Radio New Zealand
October18 2006; 16:38

Sally witness

Witnesses in an historic sex abuse trial have told the high court in Timaru they saw a former Salvation Army captain in compromising positions with children.

Sixty-nine-year old John Francis Gainsford faces 23 charges including indecent assault and rape invovling children at the Bramwell Booth Children's home in Temuka in the 1970s.