AUSTRALIA
The Advertiser
Nigel Hunt, The Advertiser
February 13, 2017
FORMER Anglican archbishop Ian George was more concerned with legal liability facing the church than providing care to the victims of notorious paedophile Robert Brandenburg, a report found.
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse report also reveals a public statement Dr George issued in 2003 concerning his awareness of Brandenburg’s abuse was “misleading.’’
It found he was aware of allegations surrounding Brandenburg up to a decade earlier, after he was advised Brandenburg had been caught in a spa with a 10-year old boy.
The damning findings also state Dr George “bore the primary responsibility’’ for the Adelaide Diocese’s poor handling of the abuse allegations.
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