AUSTRALIA
ABC News
[with video]
By court reporter Jamelle Wells and staff
The royal commission’s first public hearing will examine how a paedophile was given trusted roles involving children.
Steven Larkins was jailed last year for possessing child porn, and has pleaded guilty to committing indecent acts against two children.
But until he faced court last year, Larkins had been one of the nation’s most senior leaders in the area of child protection.
The royal commission into child abuse has been told a paedophile scout leader was not stood down because it would look bad to sack someone who was part Aboriginal.
The allegation was made on the opening day of the commission’s first public hearing in Sydney.
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