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The former assistant bishop admits he may have failed to persuade Hutchins school in Hobart to apologise over sexual abuse
By Rosemary Bolger
November 21, 2014
The former assistant bishop of the Anglican diocese of Tasmania, Ronald Stone, has told a royal commission he could have done more to persuade a Hobart school to apologise over sexual abuse by teaching staff.
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse is sitting in Hobart to investigate how the prestigious private boys school Hutchins and the Anglican church dealt with complaints made by former students.
The former pupils were sexually abused in the 1960s by Hutchins staff, including former headmaster David Lawrence.
A former pupil, known to the inquiry as AOA, had contacted Bishop Stone in 1995 after having his appeal for an apology rejected by the school board.
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