AUSTRALIA
Brisbane Times
One of Australia’s most senior Anglican leaders says evidence suggests boys were traded interstate by pedophiles linked to the church.
But Brisbane archbishop Phillip Aspinall said whether there was a “ring” of sex abusers operating during the 1970s, `80s and `90s is a matter for the royal commission to decide.
The leader of the Brisbane diocese, who boasts a near-life-long association with the church which started as an eight-year-old member of the Church of England Boys’ Society (CEBS), on Thursday gave evidence at a public hearing in Hobart.
“Certainly there were abusers who knew each other,” Archbishop Aspinall said.
“There seems to have been evidence that some abusers sent boys from one state to another state where they were abused.”
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