AUSTRALIA
Sky News
[with video]
Tasmania’s Anglican Bishop wishes a Hobart boys’ school had taken his advice and apologised sooner to a former student sexually abused by a teacher.
An emotional John Douglas Harrower choked up on Monday as he recounted to a royal commission his 2002 advice to The Hutchins School board that they say sorry to the victim.
‘I personally would have wished that the school had given an apology, a fulsome apology,’ said Bishop Harrower, who has been head of the church in Tasmania since 2000.
In 1993 a man known for legal reasons as AOA reported to the school his abuse in 1964 by then headmaster David Ralph Lawrence.
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