AUSTRALIA
The Advocate
By ADAM LANGENBERG
Jan. 28, 2016
TWO convicted child sex offenders told a royal commission they denied sharing boys or that there was a paedophile ring inside the Anglican Church.
Former Anglican priests Garth Hawkins and Louis Daniels told the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse they did not discuss their predilection for young boys with other priests.
Former Burnie Archdeacon Daniels, who has been convicted of sexual offences against 11 boys, said he had suspected some priests were attracted to young men or had behaved inappropriately, but didn’t see or hear anything to substantiate it.
Hawkins, who was convicted of sexual abuse against seven boys, said he was “absolutely not” involved in sharing of boys with other priests, and did not tell other priests about particularly vulnerable boys.
He legally changed his name to Robin Goodfellow in 2009.
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