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By Annette Blackwell – AAP on August 4, 2016
A furniture removal crew was so shocked by pornography they found at an Anglican priest’s home in NSW that they refused to go back to finish the job, the child abuse royal commission has heard.
Colvin Ford, former archdeacon of the Upper Hunter in the diocese of Newcastle, told the commission on Thursday a manager of a local furniture removal company rang him in 1998 to say distressing pornography had been found at the home of Peter Rushton, a senior priest in the diocese.
Rev Ford said the manager Jim Jackson said “our men are no angels but they were shocked by the material”.
Rev Ford reported the conversation to Bishop Roger Herft and had a meeting with him, a retired bishop and Rushton.
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