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Archivist comes forward with details about boys’ home records thought to be missing
By Giselle Wakatama
A retired police officer has alleged decades of documents have been destroyed or gone missing from a New South Wales Anglican boys’ home, which is expected to be the focus of an upcoming royal commission.
The St Albans boys’ home is expected to be part of a Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse case study looking at abuse allegations in Newcastle’s Anglican diocese.
The lack of documentation has raised alarm bells with retired 20-year police veteran Greg Harding.
Mr Harding pursued convicted paedophile and ex-St Albans board member James Michael Brown, who abused 20 boys.
Brown is currently serving a minimum 12-year jail sentence.
Speaking for publicly for the first time, Mr Harding told the ABC his investigations showed decades of documents were either missing or destroyed.
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