AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By Selina Ross
The former chief executive of Anglicare South Australia did not report allegations against a notorious paedophile to police on the advice of his lawyer, the royal commission into child sexual abuse has heard.
The royal commission sitting is examining the Anglican Church and its youth group, the Church of England Boys Society (CEBS).
Among those of interest to the royal commission is convicted paedophile Robert Brandenburg, a former Adelaide youth leader, who was accused of abusing up to 200 young boys inolved with the CEBS.
The hearing today heard from Brandenburg’s former boss, former Anglicare SA chief executive Gerard Menses, regarding his response to complaints about Brandenburg.
The royal commission heard that in the late 1990s, Mr Menses interviewed his then-employee Brandenburg about allegations he had taken boys alone to camp sites.
That was three years after Mr Menses had held a disciplinary meeting with Brandenburg over him bathing naked in a spa with a 10-year-old boy.
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