ANGLICAN HOME FOR BOYS USED BY PAEDOPHILE RING – COMMISSION HEARS
A Royal Commission hearing in Newcastle has heard an Anglican home for boys in the Hunter, was used by a paedophile ring.
The two week hearing into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse opened this morning, into what the Anglican Diocese of Newcastle did to stop priest Peter Rushton and a paedophile network of clergy and laypeople who preyed on children for decades.
Counsel advising the commission, Naomi Sharp, said the hearing would concentrate on nine men who allegedly sexually abused boys between 1960 and the late 1990s.
Ms Sharp added there would be evidence that officials within the Anglican Diocese were made aware that Rushton and a youth worker were assaulting children.
The commission will hear from the region’s abuse survivors, including Paul Gray, who will testify that Rushton raped him from the time he was 10 to 14-years-old and also left him to be raped by other men.
Counsel Assisting, Naomi Sharp, tells #RoyalCommission will first hear evidence about alleged sexual abuse by Father Peter Rushton @nbnnews
— Tyson Cottrill (@TysonCottrill) August 2, 2016
“Rushton was never charged with any child sexual offence although the diocese acknowledges that he was a child sex offender” @nbnnews
— Tyson Cottrill (@TysonCottrill) August 2, 2016
#RoyalCommission “Officials within the diocese were made aware of suspicions that Rushton and Brown were sexually abusing boys.” @nbnnews
— Tyson Cottrill (@TysonCottrill) August 2, 2016
One witness expected to give evidence of “belief that the diocese is harbouring a large number of active offenders” @CARoyalComm @nbnnews
— Tyson Cottrill (@TysonCottrill) August 2, 2016
One witness expected to give evidence of “belief that the diocese is harbouring a large number of active offenders” @CARoyalComm @nbnnews
— Tyson Cottrill (@TysonCottrill) August 2, 2016
@CARoyalComm to hear evidence Peter Rushton was protected by…”gang of three” @nbnnews
— Tyson Cottrill (@TysonCottrill) August 2, 2016
