AUSTRALIA
The Mercury
By NICK CLARK
11jun05
FORMER Anglican Bishop of Tasmania Phillip Newell was told of the pedophile activities of disgraced priest Louis Victor Daniels as early as 1987 - before Daniels committed a number of his crimes.
The Anglican Church has revealed that despite receiving complaints, Bishop Newell sent Daniels to Burnie as rector in 1988 and then appointed him Archdeacon of Burnie in 1989.
Present Anglican Bishop of Tasmania John Harrower confirmed his predecessor's actions in a written reply to questions from The Mercury. Bishop Newell declined to comment.
Daniels, 57, was sentenced in the Supreme Court last month to seven-and-half-years jail, after pleading guilty to sexual abuse of 10 boys over two decades.
He committed the crimes between 1974 and 1993.
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