AUSTRALIA
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BY PHILIPPA MCDONALD AND REBECCA ARMITAGE – ABC
September 15, 2013
The actions of one man in particular will be a major focus of the first public hearings of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in Sydney this week.
The commission is examining how organisations including Scouts Australia, Hunter Aboriginal Children’s Services (HACS) and the then Department of Community Services “responded to information and allegations concerning” Steven ‘Skip’ Larkins.
Larkins, the former chief of HACS, is currently in jail. In August 2012 he was convicted of four counts of possessing child pornography.
According to District Court judge Peter Berman, the appeal judge in his matter, Larkins’s thumb drive contained 40 pornographic videos.
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