Australia: Anglican priest Allan Kitchingham convicted of indecent assault on a boy at North Coast Children's Home
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Evidence status
Convicted
Authority role
Anglican priest, Diocese of Grafton/Newcastle
Organization
Anglican Diocese of Grafton, North Coast Children's Home, Lismore
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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
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
Cited 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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- http://www.clergyabuseaustralia.net/perpsad.htm Corpus classification: advocacy-compiled; evidentiary role: database-entry. SHA-256 b31d2c4ff5c6934760914ca00ddcd3ecf503e51a54f8c3ddd178cb62ff778af9
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