AUSTRALIA
Daily Mail
By STEVEN TRASK FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA
The portrait of a prolific sexual predator still hangs in the church where one of his victims now preaches.
Bishop of Newcastle Greg Thompson was sexually abused as a teenager by Ian Shevill, a celebrated priest who led the church in the 1970s.
Shevill was just one of the sexual predators inside the church who abused children in an infamous Anglican paedophile ring that was covered up for decades,The ABC reported.
Right Reverend Thompson was named Bishop of Newcastle in 2013 and leads the church as it faces a historic government investigation into child sexual abuse.
A black and white portrait of Shevill, his abuser, hangs in the church’s gallery alongside other infamous paedophiles such as Father Peter Rushton, the Archdeacon of Maitland.
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