Archbishop Aspinall denies sending boy to paedophile's bed Royal Commission hears

The Anglican Archbishop of Brisbane, Phillip Aspinall, has denied that in the early 1980s he sent a teenage boy to sleep with a priest later convicted of several child sex offences. Archbishop Aspinall told the commission he is ambivalent about the reference he wrote for another paedophile priest in the 1990s.

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MARK COLVIN: At the royal commission hearings in Hobart, the Anglican Archbishop of Brisbane, Phillip Aspinall, has denied telling a boy to sleep in the bed of a paedophile priest in the 1980s.

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