AUSTRALIA
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By Andrew Drummond
January 29, 2016
Tasmania’s Anglican community was Sue Clayton’s life in the 1980s, but after hearing reports of sexual abuse by a priest and disagreeing with how the church handled the allegations, her world started to crumble.
Confidential revelations in 1987 by two teenage boys that they had been molested prompted the school teacher to arrange a meeting with Bishop Phillip Newell to express her concerns.
She told a royal commission hearing on Friday she had faith the senior clergy would deal with the matter.
“You are to speak to no one about this,” she said she was told by Bishop Newell at the end of the meeting.
“These matters were of a confidential nature.”
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