AUSTRALIA
The Border Mail
Sat, Aug 06, 2005
THE Anglican Church has offered a six-figure compensation deal to the woman whose claims of child sexual abuse against a priest brought down a governor-general.
Beth Heinrich, now aged in her 60s, says she was sexually assaulted by Anglican priest Donald Shearman while a 15-year-old school girl boarder at a hostel at Forbes in the 1950s.
Just before his appointment as governor-general, Ms Heinrich approached then Brisbane Anglican archbishop Peter Hollingworth for help.