AUSTRALIA
Examiner
By PHILIPPA DUNCAN , Saturday, 11 June 2005
The Anglican Church transferred and then promoted an Anglican priest even after three teenage boys had told it that the man sexually abused them in 1987.
The Rev. Chris Jones yesterday confirmed the chain of events surrounding convicted paedophile Louis Victor Daniels but stressed that they could not occur in today's church.
He said the boys had gone to a bishop to complain of the abuse that had occurred at Deloraine, where Daniels was parish priest. The bishop had believed the boys but had not told the police, Mr Jones said.
Daniels, 57, is serving 71/2 years in Risdon Prison after pleading guilty this year to 13 charges relating to the sexual abuse of 10 boys he met through his role as deacon and priest in the church.
He abused boys as young as 11 between 1974 and 1993 in locations around Tasmania.
One of his victims has since killed himself.
Survivors Investigating Child Sex Abuse spokesman Steve Fisher is calling for an independent inquiry into the conduct of the church hierarchy in the 1980s and 1990s, who, he says, knew paedophiles were operating within the church.