AUSTRALIA
The Australian
August 25, 2016
DAN BOX
Crime reporterSydney
@DanBox10
The former dean of Newcastle’s Anglican cathedral allegedly sent an explicit greetings card to a teenager he had been having sex with for several years that read “Thank Heaven for little boys! For little boys get BIGGER every day.”
The card, tendered in evidence to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, provides an insight into how brazen senior priests associated with the NSW diocese were about their alleged activities.
Its author, Graeme Lawrence, would subsequently work closely with the then bishop of Newcastle, Roger Herft, now the Anglican Archbishop of Perth.
Other exhibits tendered to the commission allege Archbishop Herft was told on at least three occasions that Mr Lawrence was a sexual abuser, including of children, although he has given evidence saying he has no memory of this taking place.
Both men are due to face cross-examination next week.
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