AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By Giselle Wakatama
It is crucial the royal commission into child sexual abuse sheds light on “the dark past of a boys’ home” in her electorate, New South Wales Wallsend MP Sonia Hornery says.
A Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse hearing will next month examine the Anglican Diocese of Newcastle’s response to allegations of abuse, along with abuse at St John’s College at Morpeth.
The ABC has learned there will also be a focus on several boys’ homes, including Woodlands Boys’ Home at Wallsend.
The United Protestant Association (UPA) ran the home for decades, with clergy from different churches believed to have targeted boys there.
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