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SATURDAY 27 APRIL 1996 THE ACE A 8 jBowneir warns on false paedophile claims lian aid money to teach English had been used by Australian child-sex offenders connected to a diplomat. The allegations relate to a group of Australian men once linked to the school, which is called the Australian Centre for Education. The men are alleged to have used their contact with the school to befriend potential under-age sexual partners from among its younger students. Most of the 4000 students are believed to be adults but the paedophile activities in Cambodia by foreigners, Including Australians. Although the concerns were raised last year It was not until this week that the Howard Government announced an independent inquiry into allegations of paedophilia among Australian diplomats.

The Government inquiry is designed to bring paedophile diplomats to justice or clear the department's name as the Howard Government attempts to cement ties in Asia. school also runs classes for teenagers. The director of the school, Mr Paul Mahony, has said he has not heard any suggestion of paedophilia associated there in the 12 months since he arrived in Cambodia. The allegations are at the centre of claims about paedophilia linked to Australian diplomats. No allegations relate to people now working at the school.

The Inquiry into the claims which Mr Downer announced this week comes almost a year after the Cambodian Government secretly told Australia last year it was concerned about the activities of Australian philes, including diplomats, in its capital Phnom Penh. The Age reported in June last year that a senior diplomat at the Cambodian embassy in Canberra, Ms Sylvie Kea-Chin, told a senior official to the then Foreign Minister, Senator Evans, that the Cambodian Government was aware of the sexual preferences of one Australian diplomat but had noth ing against him as he was doing fine job. However, according to a record of the telephone conversation circulated privately within the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and obtained by The Age last year, Ms Kea-Chin said if allegations were true justice would have to be done. The memorandum, seen by The Age in Phnom Penh, said that the aid organisation World Vision had written a letter to the former Foreign Minister about 5 KAREN MIDDLETON i LINDSAY MURDOCH Anybody making false child-sex accusations against Australian plpmats couid expect to be posed by a proposed independent inquiry into allegations of paedophilia within the department of Foreign fairs and Trade, the Foreign lister, Mr Downer, warned terday. 'Me repeated yesterday his pledge to ensure the proposed inquiry would be ruthless in pursuit of the truth in relation to the allegations.

"If they turn out to be correct then people involved need to be dealt with under Australian law," Mr Downer told ABC Radio. "If they turn out to be false then the people making the allegations are behaving in a vexatious and very damning way and we will expose that." His comments followed a report in The Age yesterday that Australian Federal Police would investigate claims that a school in Cambodia funded by Austra Bishops apologise for abuse by clergy By PAUL McGEOUQH The Catholic bishops of Australia yesterday formally apologised to the victims of sexual abuse by priests and brothers. In a pastoral letter that will be read from pulpits or distributed to congregations throughout Australia, they say: "With deep regret, we acknowledge that a number of people associated with the church have betrayed the trust placed in them, by sexual abuse of minors and adults. "In doing so, they have acted in a way that is contrary to everything the church stands for Serious offenders who have abused their power may not be given such power again." The national move follows a Pensioner spiked food in attack on society, court told 4 "sincere apology" by one of the church's senior leaders in Vic- i toria, Monsignor Gerald Cud- more, to victims of sexual abuse i by Catholic clergy. The bishops also released a nine-point protocol on sex i v.

4 1 7 1 abuse, but Bishop Geoffrey Robinson, a member of the bishops' committee for professional standards, cautioned that the speed and enthusiasm with which it would be adopted was governed by the independence of individual dioceses and religous orders. The protocol calls for Studies on the handling of sexual abuse and the treatment of victims. Bishops to meet the victims of abuse to hear of their hurt and their needs. Codes of conduct for priests causing injury and causing a nuisance to the public. He was not required to enter a plea.

Detective Senior Constable Roger Schranz told the court that since 20 March about 25 reports had been received about contaminated food and two people had been injured by biting into the food. Senior Constable Schranz said a covert operation at a store on 24 April had led to Mr Brethauer's arrest. A search of his house revealed material similar to the needles and pins used, and an instrument to make them less conspicuous. Mr Brethauer told him he wanted to make the community suffer because he was angry over spending four years in prison about 10 years ago, he said. Mr Brethauer's lawyer, Mr Peter Cash, said Mr Brethauer had been "let down by the system" as he had not been given counselling or psychiatric help since leaving prison.

He will make a further court appearance on 10 May. By SUSHILA DAS, Magistrate Court reporter An invalid pensioner used needles to contaminate food in sljops because he felt angry that society had not treated him as wpll as it should have, the Melbourne Magistrates Court was told yesterday. Mr Hans Brethauer, 45, of BArkly Street, Elwood, tampered with food by placing dressmaking needles or cropped dressmaking needles (pins) into various foods at stores in St Kilda arjd Melbourne in March and April, the court was told. iThe contaminated foods were a jpacket of frankfurters; two apples; fruitcake; hot cross bi)ns; a jam rollet; a lamington finger; Danish luxury cake; Tres Bon apricot delight cake and Kitchen Meister imported chocolate cakes. magistrate, Mr Jack Ttjbin, refused to grant him bail, saying he was an unacceptable risk to the community.

Brethauer faces 27 charges, including product tampering intended to cause public alarm and anxiety, recklessly Beaumont mystery takes a new twist By VIRGINIA TRIOLI The search for the Beaumont children is on again. Thirty years after the three children disappeared from a beach in Adelaide, a local businessman will excavate the floor of a suburban warehouse to discover if the bodies are burled there. The floor of the plumbing supplies warehouse will be drilled on Wednesday, the first step In an Investigation by a local businessman, Mr Con Polites, who is convinced the site holds the key to the mystery. The site was dug once before, after a Dutch clairvoyant, Gerard Croiset, led searchers to the warehouse In 1966 and claimed it as the place of death. But Mr Polites is convinced the Somerton Park warehouse, built over a brick kiln, was not searched according to Mr Croisetb directions, and he has obtained permission from the buildings owners to dig again.

The disappearance of the Beaumont children Jane, 9, Arnna, 7, and Grant, 4 from Glenelg Beach on 26 January 1966, is one of Australia's greatest unsolved mysteries. The children were last seen talking to a suntanned, blond man at the beach. They failed to return home. The case has taken many turns, Including Mr Polites flying out the clairvoyant to search for the children, and the false claim that convicted -it and religious. A study of factors peculiar to I the Catholic Church that might lead to abuse.

i A treatment program for offenders. Bishop Robinson conceded I that the church did not know the extent of clerical abuse or I the extent to which it still was A family photograph of the Beaumont children, (from left) Jane, Grant and Arnna, who disappeared mysteriously from Glenelg Beach in Adelaide on Australia Day 1966. covered ud bv the practice of Recalled items I Myer Melbourne City Store: Colts, Chapel Street, Prahran Dutch cakes 'Kuerten Meister t'Dan or Tres Bon cakes Thin sausages quietly moving offending clergy to other parishes. Bishop Robinson urged offending priests and brothers to admit allegations against them. He said: "If an accused person says he is innocent we can't assume his guilt till it's proven.

But if people are guilty, we say they should admit it." Stressing that the apology issue through to what Mr Croiset said." Mr Polites said the former owners of the warehouse would not allow digging exactly where Mr Croiset said the bodies were, so the search was compromised. The drilling will establish if there is evidence of six-metre shafts below the floor where Mr Croiset claimed the bodies were. Mr Polites said he had not sought the permission of the children's parents, Jim and Nancy Beaumont, for the dig. "We have to solve the mystery," he said. "It's a public Issue now I'm doing this for everybody." Adelaide police are not Involved in the dig.

Superintendent Riach, of the South Australian major crime taskforce, said Mr Polites was within his rights to search, but said police could not follow up every hunch that people had on the unsolved case. "If something turns up, then we will get involved," he said. Superintendent Riach said police received Information every month on the Beaumont case, but did not have the resources to chase every tip. "We certainly scrutinise it we dont close the door." murderer Bevan Spencer von Einem was responsible for the children disappearance. Mr Polites says he cannot rest until the warehouse has been properly searched, saying he owes it to Mr Croiset, whom he found convincing.

"I have got to dig," Mr Polites said yesterday. "I don't want to make a sideshow out of it I think Its only fair that we should pursue the bought between 25 march and 25 April Items bought between 25 -March and 25 April can be returned to the store for a refund. Any other pre-packaged cakes bought between 23 March I iandl6 April. r- 'Jfr iltems bought between ijg i March and 16 April can be returned to the city store for ft a refund. I was institutional he acknow- i ledged that it would cause pain for individual members of the; church.

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