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Miranda Forster – AAP on November 18, 2016,
Former Anglican dean of Newcastle Graeme Lawrence says allegations he sexually abused children are “incorrect”, and denies ever being asked about them by senior clergy despite documents that suggest he was.
Lawrence, now defrocked, appeared at the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in Sydney on Friday.
He was taken to a 1995 letter from then-Bishop of Newcastle Roger Herft to youth camp leader Robert Wall, who has made a statement to the commission that two boys told him Lawrence sexually interfered with them.
“Mr Wall is absolutely incorrect,” Lawrence said of the statement, and maintained he’d never been to a youth camp.
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