AUSTRALIA
The Morning Bulletin
Chris Calcino | 20th Oct 2015
AN ANGLICAN priest suspected of sexual offences against children in northern NSW has been found dead in his home.
Reverend Campbell Brown was awaiting and internal church professional standards hearing when his body was discovered in his Hunter Valley home on Sunday.
The 80-year-old was accused during the 2013 Royal Commission into child sexual abuse of making an “implied admission of guilt” that he had sexually assaulted a young boy at the North Coast Children’s Home in Lismore about five decades earlier.
His death came two days after former Grafton Bishop Keith Slater was removed from holy orders for failing to report claims of Rev Brown and another priest’s alleged crimes to police.
The former bishop was stood-down by the same standards board that was due to look into Rev Brown’s alleged admission.
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