AUSTRALIA
The Advocate
By Georgie Burgess
Feb. 3, 2016
AUSTRALIA’S former head of state says his handling of a complaint of child sexual abuse within the Anglican Church was ”misguided and wrong”.
Former governor-general Peter Hollingworth on Wednesday apologised to a survivor of abuse at the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse which has been holding public hearings in Hobart.
Dr Hollingworth was the Archbishop of Brisbane when he received a complaint about former Tasmanian Church of England Boy’s Society leader John Elliot.
Elliot, who was jailed in 2002 for 30 child sex offences, moved from Tasmania to Queensland in the late 1960s and continued to be involved in CEBS.
A survivor, BYB, gave evidence to the commission that he met Elliot in 1975 as a young boy through the church.
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