AUSTRALIA
ABC News
Updated May 24, 2012
An inquiry investigating sexual abuse by a warden at a state-run hostel in regional Western Australia, has heard an Anglican Bishop knew about the warden’s alleged behaviour a year before he was sacked.
Roy Wenlock was the warden at Saint Christopher’s Hostel in Northam for 14 years during the 1960s and 70s.
The inquiry has been told he indecently assaulted boys until he was forced to resign in 1977.
Former boarders of the hostel have told the inquiry it was common knowledge among them that Wenlock was sexually abusing boys.
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