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The Royal Commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse is preparing to publicly examine the North Coast Children’s Home in Lismore. The public hearings slated for the next two weeks will investigate how complaints of abuse were handled by the Anglican Diocese of Grafton, which ran the home, and the legal action that occurred in 2006 and 2007. In the face of dozens of claims, the Anglican Church resisted the legal action by denying it had a duty of care to the orphans who were abused in the home. Later, it offered a financial settlement and apologised to victims.

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TONY EASTLEY: When victims began to make claims of abuse at an Anglican run children’s home in Lismore in New South Wales in 2005, the Anglican Church argued it didn’t have a duty of care to the orphans who were abused at the home.

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