AUSTRALIA
The Advocate
By ADAM LANGENBERG
Feb. 4, 2016
THE sons of former Tasmanian Anglican Bishop Philip Newell have told a royal commission they deny hearing their brother joke about child sexual abuse at the family dinner table.
John and Michael Newell told the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse that their brother Christopher Newell did not say that Church of England Boys Society members had sore bottoms when Priest Louis Daniels was at camps.
Christopher Newell’s former partner Catherine Hutchinson told the inquiry he had made those comments at the dinner table in the mid 1980s, in front of Bishop Newell.
Daniels was later convicted of child sexual abuse against seven different boys.
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