AUSTRALIA
ABC News
by Emilie Gramenz
A disgraced former Anglican priest has told a child sexual abuse inquiry in Hobart that a poorly managed boys’ club is a “sitting duck” for paedophiles, and that the church’s culture encourages offending.
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse is examining the Anglican Church and its youth group, the Church of England Boys Society (CEBS), at a public hearing in Hobart.
In particular, the commission is investigating the probability of a multi-state paedophile ring operating within CEBS between the 1960s and 1990s.
Ex-priest Louis Daniels, a convicted Tasmanian paedophile, was asked if he believed there was a culture that facilitated offending within CEBS.
He said the nature of CEBS’s activities, including camps and tours with young boys, provided opportunity.
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