PEDOPHILE SENTENCED TO COMMUNITY SERVICE AT SCHOOL

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BERLIN (Reuters) - A convicted pedophile sentenced to do community service
in a German kindergarten will return to court next week to face charges of
abusing two children there, a regional prosecutor's office said Thursday.


The man was allowed to work as a janitor at the Evangelical Kindergarten St
Petri in Melle, near the northern city of Osnabrueck, because a court
worker missed three prior pedophilia convictions on his record, said
Alexander Retemeyer, spokesman for the Osnabrueck prosecutor's office.

The man, identified only as A.B., had been sentenced to 720 hours of
community service earlier this year for working on the sly while collecting
welfare payments.

"The colleague didn't pay attention and didn't see he had a sexual
conviction, so she allowed him to serve in a kindergarten," Retemeyer said.
"She didn't read the file."

The prior convictions date from 1988-1990, when the man was living in the
former East Germany, Retemeyer said. Though the convictions are listed in
the man's criminal record, the details are unclear because prosecutors
cannot access his East German police file.

Police arrested the man in April after the head of the kindergarten
reported he had fondled himself in front of two children.

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