When a sex offender joins your Meeting… - preview
How does a Meeting – and those within it – manage when a sex offender is identified or starts attending?
It is now nine months since our small, rural Meeting held a special Meeting for Worship for healing within our community We would like to share a little of what brought us to this place
The story started in 2001 X, a middle-aged, single man, began attending our Meeting on a regular basis Soon afterwards, by chance, an elder of our meeting learned through a member of a Quaker Meeting in a town many miles away that X was currently awaiting trial for the sex offence of possessing indecent photographs of children He had pleaded guiltyHe received a non-custodial sentence and was placed on the Sex Offenders Register for five years There was media coverage but this did not spread to our location
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