Jensen Due at Abuse Royal Commission

Sky News
February 4, 2016

http://www.skynews.com.au/news/national/2016/02/05/jensen-due-at-abuse-royal-commission.html

Sydney's former Anglican archbishop Peter Jensen is due to give evidence to a royal commission about how the city's diocese handled reports of child sexual abuse.

Now-retired Bishop Jensen led the diocese for 12 years until 2013 and on Friday is listed to appear during the final hearing session in Hobart where the commission is investigating abuse linked to the Church of England Boys' Society.

On the opening day of the Hobart hearing, incumbent Sydney Archbishop Glenn Davies sent a statement to the commission to be read by the church's lawyer.

It was an acknowledgement that boys suffered abuse.

"The archbishop is deeply sorry that this terrible abuse of trust occurred," the statement read.

"It should never have happened."

On Friday the commission will also hear from a Sydney victim of abuse and his mother.

The commission's investigation includes the response of diocese in Sydney, Tasmania, Adelaide and Brisbane and is focused on lay and clergymen offenders Louis Daniels, John Elliot, Simon Jacobs, Robert Brandenburg and Garth Hawkins (now known as Robin Goodfellow).

Brandenburg died before facing court but the other men have been convicted and jailed for sexually abusing boys.