AUSTRALIA
Herald Sun
BY ANNETTE BLACKWELL AAP SEPTEMBER 16, 2013
A SCOUT leader who had supposedly been “stepped down” from contact with minors, turned up at a Gold Coast theme park with around 10 children in tow, all wearing Scouts uniform, a child abuse royal commission has heard.
It was for this reason, former Scout leader Armand Hoitink said he resigned from Scouts Australia.
Steve ‘Skip’ Larkins was jailed in 2012 for possessing child pornography, forging documents and indecent assault.
On Monday the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse began public hearings in Sydney into how Larkins ended up having parental responsibility for 19 Aboriginal children in a Hunter foster care service, despite earlier complaints being made against him.
Mr Hoitink told the commission he had been reporting complaints about Larkins to senior Scouts leaders since the early 1990s.
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