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BY ASHLEIGH RAPER – ABC
November 26, 2013
A bishop has admitted to the Royal Commission into child sexual abuse that the Anglican Church was harsh in its dealing with victims from a children’s home in northern New South Wales.
A group of former residents from the North Coast Children’s Home in Lismore run by the Anglican Church made a compensation claim for alleged sexual and physical abuse between the 1940s and 1980s.
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse is looking into the response from the Diocese to the allegations and how it handled the group claim.
Bishop Keith Slater held a powerful position when the former residents came forward claiming abuse.
This year he resigned as Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Grafton over his handling of the claims and has now been called to explain his actions to the commission.
During questioning, Bishop Slater told Counsel Assisting Simeon Beckett that the Church’s finances were his main concern.
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