AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By Dan Cox
A Hunter clergy sexual abuse survivor and victims advocate is urging fellow victims to seek professional help if a royal commission hearing raises issues for them.
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse will hold hearings in Newcastle in August.
Ahead of the hearings, the ABC’s 7.30 program has evidence from 2002 that Anglican bishop at the time, Roger Herft, ignored allegations of sexual abuse against notorious paedophile Father Peter Rushton.
Now-Archbishop Herft led the Newcastle diocese for more than a decade, and is facing claims he covered up Rushton’s child sexual abuse network.
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