AUSTRALIA
9 News
AAP
A royal commission investigating an alleged cover-up of child sex abuse within a NSW Anglican diocese will hear from an abuse survivor who rang a church hotline only to be answered by a priest who was later accused of sexual misconduct.
CKA will be the third abuse survivor to give evidence at the hearing which began on Tuesday.
On Thursday he is expected to tell of repeated attempts to report being sexually abused by a parish priest in a Newcastle parish in the 1970s.
In 1996 and 1999 when CKA rang the diocese’s sexual abuse hotline the telephone was answered by Graeme Lawrence who was dean of Christchurch Cathedral in Newcastle.
Lawrence was defrocked by Bishop Brian Farran in 2010 for sexual misconduct.
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