FREEPORT - A Grand Bahama attorney says there is an urgent, nationwide need for a rehabilitation programme for pedophiles and other sex offenders.  Carlson Shurland was the defence lawyer for Albert Alexander Whyley, the church elder sentenced to life in prison on Tuesday for raping a nine-year-old girl.

Whyley was diagnosed with paedophilia after he admitted to having sexual urges about children since his incarceration.  The father of 11 was also convicted in 1993 of having sex with a 14-year-old girl.  He served only four years of an original 14-year sentence, after it was reduced by the Court of Appeal in 1997.
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