AUSTRALIA
Newcastle Herald
By JOANNE McCARTHY Oct. 22, 2013
TOMMY Campion wept yesterday at the memory of Julia Gillard in November last year announcing a Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
He cried that day as well.
The retired photographer, who lived at the Anglican Church’s North Coast Children’s Home for 14 years from the age of two, will give evidence next month, when the commission looks at how Grafton and Newcastle Anglican dioceses responded to child sex allegations about the home.
He hopes other victims will come forward.
At its third public hearing from November 18, the royal commission will look at how the dioceses handled complaints about Anglican minister Allan Kitchingman – a Newcastle church man from 1965 who sexually abused a child at the Lismore home in 1975, and was jailed for it in 2002.
Mr Campion, 65, fought a lonely battle against the Anglican Church for years.
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