AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By Lucy Carter
Updated 26 Aug 2014
New South Wales Police have begun a new major investigation into allegations of child sexual abuse within Newcastle’s Anglican Diocese in the 1970s.
Strike force Arinya-2 has been established to investigate alleged child sexual assaults in the Newcastle region, dating back 40 years.
The Anglican Church in Newcastle has been investigated before, most recently in 2012 when the then Newcastle Anglican Bishop, Brian Farran, defrocked three priests over what he described as “disturbing” allegations of abuse that allegedly occurred in the 1970s and 1980s.
At the time, the Professional Standards Board of the Anglican Church of Newcastle accepted that the former dean of Newcastle, Graeme Lawrence, and the reverends Bruce Hoare and Andrew Duncan engaged in sexual misconduct against a male teenager.
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