AUSTRALIA
The Australian
AUGUST 28, 2014
Dan Box
Crime Reporter
Sydney
THE Anglican diocese at the centre of a major new police inquiry into church child sex abuse is also being investigated by a royal commission, which has asked it to provide tens of thousands of documents dating back to the 1950s.
The documents, including the correspondence of every Anglican bishop of Newcastle since the early 1950s, were provided to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse last month, in response to a formal summons issued earlier this year.
The Australian yesterday revealed a dedicated NSW Police strike force, codenamed Arinya-2, is also investigating allegations of child sex abuse within the Anglican Church in Newcastle, NSW.
The current bishop, Greg Thompson yesterday said his diocese would “co-operate fully and completely with the commission’s investigations and we have over recent months provided all material relating to allegations of child sexual abuse, including the church’s response”.
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