From Australia-Two police detectives joked with a paedophile Anglican priest about the children “they would have in their tent that night,” a royal commission has heard.
The evidence, given on oath before the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse today, is the first time it has heard the child abuse scandal now consuming the Anglican diocese of Newcastle in NSW may extend beyond the church.
Eight current or former Newcastle bishops, including the current Archbishop of Perth Roger Herft, have been called to give evidence during the current hearing. The commission has heard evidence that powerful people within the church were allegedly complicit in the cover-up of child abuse and the diocese is “harbouring a large number of active offenders with little or no accountability in place.”
More here-
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/in-depth/royal-commission/abuse-royal-commission-police-joked-with-paedophile-priest-peter-rushton/news-story/804e787c69bdbd1167f74a9d9dc15cce
also here-
http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/priest-tells-royal-commission-of-the-cost-of-speaking-out-against-peter-rushton-20160803-gqk3g7.html
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