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PATRICK BILLINGS
Mercury
FORMER Governor-General Peter Hollingworth has apologised personally to a victim of child abuse whose allegations he seriously mishandled when he was Anglican Archdeacon of Brisbane.
The victim, known by the pseudonym BYB, was sexually abused by John Litton Elliot over a period of four years from the late 1970s.
At the time Elliot was a Church of Engliand Boys’ Society leader and a lay preacher in Queensland.
In 1993, BYB reported the abuse to Archdeacon Hollingworth as Elliot was by then a priest in Queensland.
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