AUSTRALIA
Maitland Mercury
A disgraced Scout leader was urged to quietly resign from the organisation and warned if he appealed the decision it could jeopardise his full-time job working with Aboriginal children.
Former regional commissioner of the Hunter Scouts, Allan Currie, told the second day of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in Sydney the suggestion was made to Steve “Skip” Larkins that he should resign from the movement in 2003.
Larkins had been suspended three years previously after a former Scout, known as AA, came forward and said he had been sexually assaulted by Larkins in 1992.
Before that, Larkins had been removed from face-to-face contact with Scouts in 1997 after complaints were made about him giving lollies to children at a swimming pool.
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