AUSTRALIA
news.com.au
MARCH 12, 2017
Megan Neil
Australian Associated Press
The extent of child sex abuse in the Australian Anglican Church will be laid bare as its leaders answer for what one bishop describes as a protection racket for pedophiles.
Church records on child sex abuse claims will be released as its senior leaders face the royal commission’s final Anglican hearing that begins in Sydney on Friday.
University of Sydney law professor Patrick Parkinson says there are pockets within the Anglican Church that have pretty appalling records of child abuse.
“There’s definitely pockets of real shame in the Anglican Church,” Professor Parkinson told AAP.
“What you see is an appalling history in certain parts of the Anglican Church but I don’t think it’s fair to say that that’s uniform across the Anglican Church as a whole.”
The royal commission has examined child abuse in a number of Anglican dioceses including Newcastle and Grafton, as well as a network of pedophiles in the Church of England Boys’ Society.
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