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>Title: Paedophile tricked way into Jesus Army >Fellowship >Website: Northampton Chronicle and Echo >www.northamptonchron.co.uk >Date: 03/07/2010 >Link : <a rel=nofollow target=_blank >href="http://www.northamptonchron.co.uk/news/Paedophile >-tricked-way-into-Jesus.6398715.jp">Paedophile tricked >way into Jesus Army Fellowship</a> > ><b>Paedophile tricked way into Jesus Army >Fellowship</b> > >An "absolutely relentless paedophile" who infiltrated >a Jesus Fellowship community and abused three children >has been jailed. > >James Gardner, aged 63, was allowed to work at the >community house in Pattishall because no criminal >record checks were ever carried out. > >He was jailed for five years, placed on the Sex >Offenders' Register for life and will be on licence >and liable to recall to prison until 2020. > >Gardner, of Mulliner Street, Coventry, had a string of >previous child sex convictions before beginning work >as a gardener and gravedigger at one of the religious >sect's community homes in 1996. > >He had fled Scotland after being convicted of offences >against members of a youth football team. > >Matthew Lowe, prosecuting, said he preyed on three >boys, aged between seven and 10 years old, over a >seven-year period. > >He would stay over in the cellar, where the boys were >taken on the pretext of looking at his dogs, where >they were then sexually abused. > >The offences only came to light years later when two >of his victims had their memories triggered when they >revisited the cellar. > >They revealed to a Fellowship elder how they were >offered sweets and bribes, before being subjected to >serious sexual abuse. > >After being convicted of sexual and indecent assaults, >Judge Charles Wide QC branded Gardner "an absolutely >relentless paedophile". > >He added: "You tried to make a new life for yourself >but there was an element of you trying to cover your >tracks. > >"And when the Jesus Army took you in, they did not >know about you and you abused their trust, abused the >trust of the children and abused the trust of the >parents of those children. > >"It is a serious feature of this case that there was >not one but three victims over a significant period. > >"What you did to them has left its scars in terms of >their development and degree of trust." > >Gardner was able to secure work despite his previous >convictions, because no criminal records bureau checks >were made, although the Jesus Fellowship has confirmed >it has now tightened up its procedures. > >Matthew Kirk, mitigating, said Gardner, who was found >guilty in May, still denies the offences.
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