AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By Selina Ross
Archbishop of Brisbane Phillip Aspinall has rejected claims that his actions led to a youth being abused by a paedophile priest more than 30 years ago.
He said it was “right and proper” that he wrote a reference for paedophile priest Louis Daniels
Archbishop Aspinall faced the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in Hobart today.
He came under intense questioning over what he knew about paedophiles operating in the Anglican Church and its youth group, the Church of England Boys Society (CEBS).
It heard allegations from a witness known as BYF who blamed Archbishop Aspinall for the abuse he suffered at the hands of convicted paedophile Garth Hawkins in January 1982.
Archbishop Aspinall, who was youth officer at CEBS at the time, said BYF told him Hawkins had made an advance on him when they were staying with the priest and he thought the priest was gay.
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