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Nick Butterly, PerthNow
December 15, 2016
THE Anglican Archbishop of Perth, Roger Herft, has resigned after admitting to a royal commission earlier this year he let down survivors of child sexual abuse.
The resignation makes Archbishop Herft the highest-ranking casualty of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sex Abuse.
In a statement last night, the Church revealed that Arch-bishop Herft, who had stood aside in October, would not return.
Victims’ advocacy groups had demanded his resignation after he gave evidence to the royal commission in August showing how he had failed to act on warnings of priests abusing children in Newcastle when he led the Church there between 1993 and 2005.
“The Archbishop of Perth, The Most Reverend Roger Herft, informed the Diocesan Council today of his decision to retire a year ahead of schedule, namely 7 July 2017,” the Church statement said.
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