Child sex offenders to give evidence

AUSTRALIA
Herald Sun

AAP

Twelve years after the Anglican diocese of Tasmania was first alerted to allegations of child sex abuse by an assistant Hobart priest, he was selected to lead a youth group.

Louis Daniels, 68, will be one of two convicted sex offenders who on Thursday will give evidence to a royal commission hearing.

In 1981 Daniels was rebuked by then-Bishop Henry Jerrim for acting in a sexually inappropriate way with a boy, the commission has been told.

“Bishop Jerrim told Mr Daniels to amend his life,” counsel assisting the commission, Naomi Sharp said.

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