AUSTRALIA
ABC News
More details have been released about the scope of Royal Commission hearings into child sexual abuse to be held in Newcastle next month.
The hearing, starting on August 2, will look at the past and present systems, policies and practices within the Anglican Diocese of Newcastle for responding to allegations of child sexual abuse.
In particular it will look at the response by the diocese to allegations made against a number of clergy and lay people, including Graeme Lawrence, Gregory Goyette, Andrew Duncan, Bruce Hoare, Graeme Sturt, Peter Rushton, Ian Barrack, James Michael Brown and another Anglican priest.
The hearing will investigate links between any institutional culture at St John’s College Morpeth and the perpetration of child sexual abuse.
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