AUSTRALIA
Newcastle Herald
Krystal Sellars
July 11, 2016
A Hunter Valley man who was abused by an Anglican priest in Cessnock in the 1960s is urging others who experienced the same trauma to share their stories with the Royal Commission into institutional responses to child sex abuse.
Paul Gray was sexually abused by Fr Peter Rushton from the ages of 11 to 15, when he was an altar boy and member of the Church of England boys’ brigade.
Fr Rushton – who died in 2007 – completed his training at Morpeth in 1963 and spent four years at Cessnock before he was transferred to Wyong.
He also served at Weston from 1968, moved to Wallsend in 1973, Maitland in 1983 and Hamilton in 1998, before retiring in 2001.
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