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| Pedophiles Prowled Church of England Boys’ Society ‘for Decades’
The Australian
February 14, 2017
https://goo.gl/MsLZ0F
Networks of pedophiles operated in the Church of England Boys’ Society for several decades, some “sharing” victims, while the church’s only formal response was to revoke awards given to several perpetrators.
These are among findings of a report by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, released yesterday, relating to abuse of boys in CEBS in Tasmania, Queensland, NSW and South Australia in the 1970s and 80s.
The Anglican Bishop of Tasmania, Richard Condie, responded by apologising to victims and announcing disciplinary proceedings against former bishop Philip Newell, whose handling of abuse in that state in the 80s and 90s was heavily criticised by the commission.
Former governor-general Peter Hollingworth was also criticised for a “serious error of judgment”, when as archbishop of Brisbane he allowed pedophile priest John Elliot to remain in the ministry after his abuse was known.
The report is scathing of the church’s responses to the abuse; identifying systemic shortcomings and a failure to adequately co-ordinate belated investigations across state borders.
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