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The Evening Post
April 30, 2002

Abuse appeal fails

A man who said a "trainee priest" sexually abused him as a child, has failed to overturn an indefinite jail sentence for abusing a young girl. The Court of Appeal, sitting at Auckland last week, dismissed Glenn Andrew Churches' appeal against a term of preventive detention. Churches, 38, pleaded guilty to attempting to rape the seven-year-old girl, sexual violation and indecent assault. The offending covered about 3<<1/2>> years from 1997 when he was still on parole from an earlier jail term for sexually violating young boys.