Charity reprimanded for employing sex offender

By David Ainsworth, Third Sector Online, 3 March 2008

A charity that helps eastern European orphanages has been criticised after allowing a known sex offender to join it as a volunteer.

The Leeds-based Smiles Foundation allowed the man to pay to travel to Romania and help with construction work at one of its projects, even though he freely admitted past offences, a Charity Commission investigation found. The commission said the appointment was not illegal and the charity had apparently successful measures...

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