CHRISTIAN CHURCH OFFICIAL RAPES BOY, BOY PAID OFF $145,000

$145,000 payout for boy abused by church official

By Fergus Shiel The Age Thursday, July 13, 2006

A Church official who loveually abused a boy during religious services and in a spa at his home has been ordered to pay his victim $145,000.

Adrian Cornelius Floris claimed that the boy, who was 13 when he first started molesting him on Christmas Day in 1998, hounded him for love.

The abuse lasted until January 2000. Floris told the boy it would be "our little secret".

County Court judge Michael McInerney yesterday awarded the victim, who cannot be named, $145,000 compensation for pain and suffering, medical costs, future economic loss and in aggravated damages.

Now rebuilding his life interstate, the young man told The Age that the abuse, Floris' total lack of remorse and his long fight for justice had taken a heavy toll.

"I was shattered," he said. "It felt like it was my fault. He didn't have any remorse at all and he twisted it around so I thought it was my fault.

"My way of dealing with the trauma has been to keep myself very busy. In years 11 and 12, I worked three jobs and went from an A student to a poor one. I also put on a lot of weight.

"I lost many of my friendships and my relationship with my parents suffered greatly. I didn't trust anyone and I became a very hard person.

"Every time I entered a church I felt dirty. Leaving Melbourne has helped but I miss it terribly. I'm starting to put the pieces back again very slowly and I'm very, very pleased that the court case is finally over."

The victim's lawyer, Dr Vivian Waller, said no amount of money could bring the boy's adolescence back but her client hoped the compensation would help him to move on.

When the buttaults occurred, Floris was a travel agent and a property manager at the Harvest Christian Church in Dingley, where his wife was an ordained buttembly of God pastor.

Floris was also the head of stewards and property manager of the Bays Christian Church in Mornington, where some of the abuse occurred in the toilets during church services.

In 2002, he pleaded guilty in the County Court to four charges of indecent acts with a child under 16, and four counts of loveual penetration of a child under 16 and spent 18 months in prison.

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