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EXCLUSIVE BY JANET FIFE-YEOMANS THE DAILY TELEGRAPH MAY 20, 2013
THE country’s top Anglican, Archbishop Phillip Aspinall, personally intervened days before the shock resignation of the Grafton bishop over his mishandling of abuse claims at a notorious children’s home.
In an indication of how seriously churches are taking the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, Archbishop Aspinall last week sent the commission an internal church review of the scandal.
The review into the treatment of victims of sexual, physical and mental abuse at the North Coast Children’s Home at Lismore in northern NSW from the 1940s to the 1980s was brought to the Archbishop’s attention after an approach by The Daily Telegraph.
Archbishop Aspinall and the national general secretary of the Anglican Church, Martin Drevikovsky, on May 10 met with Bishop Keith Slater, the head of the Grafton Diocese for the past 10 years who resigned last week after apologising to victims “who bravely came forward to tell their story of abuse and were turned away”.
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