Aspinall ‘cajoled’ Boy: Inquiry Told

By Police Reporter
Mercury
January 28, 2016

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MORE damning evidence has been levelled at Brisbane’s ­incumbent Archbishop, with a paedophile priest claiming ­Phillip Aspinall “cajoled” a ­victim to sleep with him at his East Coast rectory.

Serial child abuser and ­former Anglican priest Garth Hawkins, who has changed his name to Robin Goodfellow, appeared at the Royal Commission into Institutional Child Sex Abuse in Hobart yesterday.

“He was cajoled or teased by Phillip Aspinall and the other boys into joining me in my bed,” Hawkins said.

“I think he might have mentioned it when he came into my room ... ‘the others had sent me in there’.”

On Wednesday, the victim said Archbishop Aspinall “put me in that bed” by “volunteering him to Hawkins”.