AUSTRALIA
The Chronicle
AN INQUIRY into the handling of child sex abuse allegations against a former chaplain of Slade School is under way and the Anglican Church is calling for potential victims to come forward.
The inquiry was ordered last month, following allegations priest Robert Waddington was banished from England to Slade School in 1956, following claims he was molesting the son of an English politician.
He stayed at Slade School until 1959, before moving to north Queensland.
Waddington is accused of physically and sexually abusing at least three students in Ravenshoe, north Queensland and recruiting several teachers who were later convicted of child abuse.
He died of cancer in 2007.
Former Archbishop of York David Hope is accused of covering up allegations of abuse by Waddington when they were reported to him in 1999 and 2003. He denies the allegations.
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