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> >absolutely horrendous. Do they crb people now or not - >their argument was that they couldn't because people >wouldn't to want to stay if they had to be checked out. >Hey guess what - some things are more important than >getting people to join your poxy church > > > >>Title: Judge: Jesus Fellowship's children 'at risk of >>abuse' >>Website: Northampton Chronicle and Echo >>www.northamptonchron.co.uk >>Date: 12/05/2010 >>Link : <a rel=nofollow target=_blank >>href="http://www.northamptonchron.co.uk/news/Judge-Jes >u >>s-Fellowship39s-children-39at.6288182.jp">Judge: Jesus >>Fellowship's children 'at risk of abuse'</a> >> >><b>Judge: Jesus Fellowship's children 'at risk of >>abuse'</b> >> >>Children living in Jesus Fellowship communities in >>Northamptonshire are "plainly at risk of abuse" unless >>the organisation changes its child protection systems, >>a judge has said. >> >>Judge Charles Wide QC was speaking after the >>conviction of James Gardner, a former volunteer >>gardener at the religious group, who was found guilty >>of three counts of indecent assault and one of sexual >>assault against young boys who were part of the Jesus >>Fellowship community in Pattishall. >> >>Gardner, aged 63, of Mulliner Street, Coventry, had a >>string of previous convictions before infiltrating the >>Jesus Fellowship in 1996. >> >>At Northampton Crown Court on Monday he was convicted >>of assaulting three boys aged younger than 11 after >>offering sweets and bribes. >> >>Judge Wide QC said: "He is an absolutely relentless >>paedophile. He worked his way into the Jesus >>Fellowship to abuse children." >> >>Gardner, who has previous convictions for sexual >>offences against boys in Scotland, was employed at the >>community house as a gardener and grave digger when he >>is alleged to have sexually assaulted the boys in the >>cellar. >> >>A jury returned a unanimous guilty verdict on Monday >>after Gardner denied the charges against him. The >>accusations all related to abuse which took place in >>the late 1990s. >> >>Judge Wide QC urged the Jesus Fellowship to review its >>child protection procedures as a result of the case, >>during which police officers established volunteers >>within the community did not undergo Criminal Records >>Bureau (CRB) checks before working with children. >> >>He said: "These children are plainly at risk of abuse >>unless something is done about it." >> >>Sentencing was adjourned to allow further reports into >>Gardner's offending to be carried out. He will learn >>his fate at a hearing in June, and was remanded in >>custody in the meantime. >> >>John Campbell, speaking on behalf of the Jesus >>Fellowship after the case, said the organisation >>"deeply regretted" Gardner being allowed to work at >>the community. >> >>He said: "We have worked with social services and the >>police in the past to try to make sure our child >>protection policies are up at the top level. Things >>went wrong here. >> >>"This man was meant to be reporting to police but he >>had given them the slip. We didn't know about his >>offences in Scotland - nobody knew that he wasn't >>supposed to be working with children - and >>unfortunately he developed contact with them, which >>wasn't what was meant to happen at all." >> >>Mr Campbell said the organisation's child protection >>policies had been tightened up considerably since the >>incident and the fellowship welcomed new regulations >>due to come in this year allowing it to check people >>more thoroughly.
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