AUSTRALIA
The Mercury
PATRICK BILLINGS
Mercury
THE victim of a Tasmanian paedophile priest is urging other victims to report to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse ahead of a Hobart hearing next month.
The commission will hold a public hearing in Hobart into the Church of England Boys’ Society and the Anglican Dioceses of Tasmania, Adelaide, Sydney and Brisbane.
The commission wants to hear from people who have information relevant to the hearing, including allegations involving Louis Daniels, Garth Hawkins, Robert Brandenberg, Simon Jacobs and John Elliott, against whom legal action has already been taken.
One of Hawkins’s victims, Steven Fisher was recently interviewed by the commission’s investigators.
He was as a teen abused for two years in what he describes as an interstate paedophile ring.
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