AUSTRALIA
The Australian
Dan Box
From:The Australian
February 22, 2013
A PRIEST described as “one of the worst offenders in the history of the Anglican Church” moved between parishes in NSW, and later joined the Baptist Church, despite senior clerics knowing he had allegedly committed serial sex abuse.
Geoffrey Albert Taylor is alleged to have abused dozens of predominantly teenage women and girls over at least three decades from the 1960s.
During this time, he worked at a number of Anglican Sydney parishes and spent almost four years as director of the diocese’s youth department.
Anglican officials received the first allegations of potential abuse as early as 1970, but Taylor was not asked to resign as a priest until 1993, after signing a statement admitting to “having sexual relationships with my parishioners”.
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