AUSTRALIA
Sky News
An inquiry has heard of an Anglican official’s regret at not taking disciplinary action against a convicted pedophile, which allowed him to continue representing himself as an ordained minister.
Reverend Allan Kitchingman was convicted in 2002 on five counts of indecently assaulting a 13-year-old boy in 1975 at the North Coast Children’s Home, where he was chaplain.
He presented himself as an ordained minister in the community once he finished his jail term for indecently assaulting a teenager.
The Royal Commission into Institutionalised Responses to Child Sexual Abuse is examining the Anglican Diocese of Grafton’s response to abuse at the Lismore home.
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