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The former leader of the Anglican church in Tasmania has apologised for failing to alert police after boys raised allegations of sexual abuse by a priest.
Bishop Phillip Keith Newell on Monday ended his evidence to a royal commission with an admission, adding it was “too much” to ask forgiveness from the victims.
“I made a wrong judgment,” said the ageing Bishop.
“If I had acted then … and done the adult thing and gone to the police, so much suffering would have been avoided.”
As a father of three sons, Bishop Newell said he has questioned his response if it had been one of his children giving the account of abuse, which he described as outrageous, gross and criminal.
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