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Conviction Christian institutions & contexts Other or denomination not established Lismore and Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia · 2002

Australia: Anglican priest Allan Kitchingham convicted of indecent assault on a boy at North Coast Children's Home

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

Anglican priest, Diocese of Grafton/Newcastle

Organization

Anglican Diocese of Grafton, North Coast Children's Home, Lismore

Spiritual nexus

Kitchingham held clerical authority within a residential children's home run under Anglican diocesan auspices, giving him custodial-cum-pastoral access to a resident child.

  • Pastoral or clerical authority
  • Institutional obedience or isolation

Evidence structure

Proceedings

  1. 2002-01-01 · guilty plea and sentence

    Newcastle District Court, New South Wales. Kitchingham pleaded guilty in Newcastle District Court to five counts of indecent assault against a 13-year-old boy in 1975 at the North Coast Children's Home, Lismore, and was sentenced to two years and nine months' imprisonment.

Documented coercion mechanisms

  • clerical authority within a church-run children's home

Primary record

Sources

advocacy compiled database entry 'Clergy Sexual Abuse in Australia — perpetrator index (Sa-)', clergyabuseaustralia.net.

Compiled record of Kitchingham's guilty plea, offence and sentence in Newcastle District Court.

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