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Allegations of Abuse
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Media coverage over a child sex
abuse case in Timaru has prompted a woman to travel down from Taranaki to
give evidence. The trial of John Gainsford, for
historical sex offences at the Bramwell Booth Salvation Army Children's Home
in the 70s, is into its fourth day. Today was marked by the evidence
of a surprise new witness. Christina Cullen from Hawera told the court after
seeing coverage of the case online she decided to travel down to testify. Ms Cullen says when she was a
19-year-old St John ambulance cadet she took some of the girls from the
school out for the day. She then described how they told her about abuse
there and did not want to go back. Ms Cullen described how she subsequently
informed her superior about it. Gainsford was transferred not long
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