A BRITISH former aid worker accused of sexually abusing young orphans in his charge appeared in an Ethiopian court on Monday, some six years after fleeing the country and changing his name. The crimes of “sexual child abuse” allegedly committed by David Christie (59), who has since changed his name to Allen, took place in 1995 when he worked in Ethiopia for the Swiss charity Terre des Hommes Lausanne. Christie/Allen was apprehended on Friday by authorities in Zambia, where he was said to be planning to set up a children’s home, and then arrested when his flight from Lusaka to London stopped over in Addis Ababa. “It is totally untrue, I’m pleading not guilty,” said Christie/Allen to journalists. – AFP
Monday August 20, 2001