AUSTRALIA
The Australian
A PEDOPHILE was able to successfully apply for a teenage boy to live with him despite a previous screening check found that he posed a risk to children, the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has heard.
Steven Larkins was employed at the time as chief executive of the Hunter Aboriginal Children’s Service, with court-appointed parental responsibility for some of the most vulnerable children in NSW.
A previous Working With Children Check conducted by the state government had found Larkins posed a “medium risk” to children, the commission heard.
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