AUSTRALIA
The West Australian
Nick Butterly – The West Australian on August 5, 2016
Perth’s Anglican Archbishop Roger Herft promised to remove a priest at the centre of historic child sex allegations, an abuse victim has claimed, but no action was taken.
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse was also told how a notorious paedophile priest was found with a hoard of hard-core pornography, but Archbishop Herft recommended the priest be given only spiritual counselling.
The royal commission is examining claims of child sexual abuse in the Hunter region of NSW dating back decades.
Archbishop Herft was Bishop of Newcastle between 1993 and 2005.
An abuse victim given the pseudonym CKA told how he was abused by a priest, dubbed CKC, over a prolonged period when he was a boy, beginning in the early 1970s.
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