AUSTRALIA
Sydney Morning Herald
Ian Kirkwood
A former Anglican altar boy has told a royal commission of four years of abuse at the hands of a priest code-named CKC.
A trial against the priest was discontinued soon after it started and the 55-year-old former altar-boy – given the pseudonym CKA – told how his family suffered abuse and death threats as a result of him taking action against CKC.
He said an elderly woman from the church spat on him and said he was “nothing but a troublemaker”.
He said he had nails put in his tyres and could have died when he realised the car he was driving felt funny and he pulled over to find all of its rear wheel nuts had been loosened.
CKA named the person he believed responsible, a prominent lay figure in the Newcastle Anglican church.
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