AUSTRALIA
Sydney Morning Herald
Nick Ralston
An Anglican bishop has resigned over his failure to properly pass on child sex abuse complaints at a children’s home on the NSW north coast.
Keith Slater has stood down as the Bishop of the Diocese of Grafton, apologising for his ”past failings” in the management of claims of abuse at the North Coast Children’s Home in Lismore.
”I apologise to those who bravely came forward to tell their story of abuse and were turned away,” he said in a statement. ”I acknowledge the pain and further damage that this response may have caused.”
In 2006 the Anglican Diocese of Grafton received a number of claims alleging acts of ”physical, psychological and sexual abuse” at the home between the 1940s and the 1980s.
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