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Hutchins School abuse allegations: Tasmania’s Anglican diocese to front sexual assault royal commission
The Hutchins School and Anglican Diocese of Tasmania will appear before the Royal Commission into Child Sexual Abuse over allegations of sexual assault at the school in the 1960s.
The allegations relate to former headmaster David Lawrence and former teacher Lyndon Hickman, both of whom are dead.
The school and diocese have said they will cooperate fully with the royal commission.
Tasmania is the only state or territory where the commission has not yet taken formal evidence in open sessions.
However, public hearings will be held in Hobart next month, after the royal commission secured money for an extra 30 public hearings and 3,000 private sessions.
Evidence of abuse at St Virgil’s school in Hobart in the 1950s was heard in private by the commission earlier this year.
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