1. First charges were laid in 1993. In 2002 after 11 charges had been tried, Ken had no conviction recorded.
    
2. September 2002: Silhouetted man's daughter accuses Ken of molesting her after he is asked to leave Kenja due to suspected sexual improprieties with his daughter. In 2005 police investigate allegations of his daughter's best friend. They drop the case and no action taken.
     
3. February 2005: Political uproar in Australia when a citizen Cornelia Rau was discovered in an immigrant detention centre. Silhouetted man uses this as an opportunity to canvas tabloid press - who pursue Ms Rau's brief participation in Kenja Activities 7 years earlier, and draw a very long bow, attempting to blame her condition on Kenja. 
    
4. In early 2005 - a high level decision is made to re-open the case previously dropped.
    
5. October 2005: Ken is charged with molestation of both girls - Silhouette man's daughter and her best friend (this best friend had previously denied any offences but changes her story under police interviewing). Ken fights for bail, which is granted. From October 2005 to his passing Ken was never permitted (under bail conditions) to attend Kenja premises again. 
    
6. July 2007: Allegations made by daughter of a father who was attacking Kenja. The daughter on 3 previous occasions had totally rejected that she had ever been assaulted while in Kenja. She was being manipulated by her father in order to discredit Kenja for his own purposes. 
    
7. Police then indicate they intend to question Ken over these allegations. While a trial would eventually have exonerated Ken, he faced incarceration while waiting for trial - an indeterminate period waiting for the truth to come out, in prison where he would certainly have died. 
    
8. On 25 July 2007, after finding out one of this girl's allegations was dated as 2006 when she was 19 - meaning she was specifically alleging that Ken offended whilst on bail for earlier charges (incredibly, at a time Ken was not even allowed to attend Kenja premises), Ken at 85 and in poor health, saw he faced immediate incarceration in jail. It was this outrage that would deny him the presumption of innocence, and certain death before trial. He chose instead, to take his own life.

published 4/7/2009

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