AUSTRALIA
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By Xavier La Canna
November 14, 2014
The head of a religious group that once employed a notorious Darwin paedophile met with him last month in an unsuccessful bid to get him to admit to child sexual abuse allegations he was never convicted of, new submissions say.
The information came as siblings of Donald Bruce Henderson prepare to meet with him this weekend, including one flying in from America, to discuss matters including the allegations of child sexual abuse.
Documents tendered to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse on Friday reveal that the head of the Australian Indigenous Ministries (AIM), Reverend Trevor Leggott, met with Mr Henderson in an attempt to get him to admit he was involved in child sexual abuse against children at Darwin’s Retta Dixon home.
“This was done for the specific purpose of, if those admissions were made, placing the matter in the hands of the police,” the submission by Reverend Leggott’s lawyer Mark Thomas said.
Mr Thomas told the ABC the meeting occurred on October 20.
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