Church Officials Believed Claims Were True

By Amanda Gearing And Michael Mckenna
The Australian
May 11, 2013

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/church-officials-believed-claims-were-true/story-e6frg6n6-1226639686576

FORMER Anglican church officials have admitted they believed a former school headmaster had abused children at a north Queensland boarding school, despite telling a victim during mediation over a compensation payout that his allegations were not proven.

For more than six years, Anglican officials dismissed the allegations of Queensland pensioner Bim Atkinson that he had been sexually abused between 1964 and 1968 by the Reverend Robert Waddington, the former headmaster of St Baranabas boarding school in Ravenshoe, on the Atherton Tablelands.