Jury finds ex-Brethren guilty of indecency charges
Nelson Mail
New Zealand
October 14, 2009
A Nelson jury has found a former Exclusive Brethren man guilty of indecently assaulting four young girls, in a case in which charges dated back over 50 years.
Clive Ellen Petrie, 74, of Wakatu, was this afternoon found guilty of nine charges of indecently assaulting girls under age 12 and one charge of inducing a girl under age 12 to do an indecent act on him.
Petrie pleaded guilty to another charge of indecent assault on a girl at the start of his trial on Monday in the Nelson District Court.
The jury of nine women and three men took over four hours to return their verdict.
The Crown said the charges related to indecent assaults against four women when they were young girls in the 1950s, early 1960s with a further lot of offending against a fourth victim in the 1980s.
Source: Stuff.Co.NZ – Jury finds ex-Brethren guilty of indecency charges
REPUTED PURITY AND TOTAL HOLINESS IN BRETHREN CIRCLES?
REVELATION 3 v 14-end of chapter.
A divine summary of the deviance of an overclaiming sectarian group among whom for years the so-called LEVITES, the leading men, have been found, in many instances, to be secretly corrupt in Leeds, London, Lincoln and in Belfast among others supremely public in ABERDEEN 1970, sad yet eminently thundering to all-SATAN has had immense success whether that fact is palatable or not, and the taint of wrongdoing is a stigma and reproach on Christ’s Church.
Humble confession is the sole cathartic for the sinful and broken.