AUSTRALIA
Maitland Mercury
There was no legal impediment to a man subject to child abuse claims taking a 17-year-old boy into his personal care, a royal commission has been told.
Children’s Guardian Kerryn Boland said the Commission for Children and Young People had been concerned in 2010-11 over a potential conflict of interest stemming from principal officer of Hunter Aboriginal Children Services Steve Larkins’ care of the boy.
Arrested in 2011, Larkins is now in jail for child pornography and related offences.
“The principal officer would be the one who would have responsibility for dealing with complaints to HACS,” Ms Boland told the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse yesterday.
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