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31 August 2016

I was fooled by priest on sex abuse: Herft

The Anglican Church has revealed “continuing distress and sadness” in its Perth diocese as Archbishop Roger Herft yesterday admitted to being told on three occasions that a senior priest had abused children but had raised the allegations only with the clergyman involved.
Appearing before the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, Archbishop Herft faced a second day of questioning in Newcastle about his knowledge of child sex offences in the NSW Hunter region in the 1990s and early 2000s.

https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/wa/a/32476877/i-was-fooled-by-priest-on-sex-abuse-herft/#page1