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Sex, lies and rock ‘n’ roll

Think very carefully before agreeing to be a witness in a child abuse court case

23 August 2014

9:00 AM

23 August 2014

9:00 AM

The Brevet Sergeant from the Sex Crimes Unit who came to my office late in 2010 hastened to assure me that there were no allegations against me. He simply wanted my assistance to identify a person under investigation for the sexual abuse of a minor in the early 1980s.

In matters like this, one instinctively wants to help, so I did.

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John Schumann was the lead singer-songwriter in the socio-political folk-rock band, Redgum. He runs his own strategic communications consultancy in SA and has a new band, the Vagabond Crew.

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