AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By Peta Carlyon
Former Archbishop of Adelaide Ian George has told the child abuse royal commission he should have done more to help victims.
Bishop George told the hearing of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in Hobart, he felt “a deep sense of remorse” the Church did not protect children from notorious paedophile Robert Brandenburg.
Brandenburg took his own life in 1999, days before facing court on 365 charges of child abuse.
Bishop George acknowledged the Church “provided an avenue and an opportunity” for Brandenburg to abuse while failing victims and their families.
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