AUSTRALIA
9 News
Steve Larkins had long been suspected of abuse but continued to work with vulnerable children until the discovery of child pornography sparked the investigation which finally brought him down.
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse was told on Thursday that, although there had been rumours within the Aboriginal community dating back to when Larkins worked with the Scouts, he kept his senior position with Hunter Aboriginal Children Services (HACS) because he had forged a working with children check.
He was only exposed as a pedophile when a work colleague found indecent material on a flash drive belonging to him.
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