AUSTRALIA
The Advertiser
January 24, 2016
Nigel Hunt
The Advertiser
FORMER Anglican Archbishop Ian George will be publicly questioned for the first time over the diocese’s handling of allegations of sexual abuse committed by notorious paedophile Robert Brandenburg.
Dr George, who resigned as archbishop in 2004 as a result of a damning report into the Adelaide dioceses’ handling of the Brandenburg allegations, is a key witness at the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse public hearing in Hobart this week.
The commission is probing a paedophile network that operated within the Church of England Boys Society — predominantly in Tasmania and South Australia — for more than two decades.
It will examine the systems, policies and procedures in place both within the society and the respective Anglican dioceses and Anglicare in SA concerning youth camps and activities and how they responded to concerns and complaints about child sexual abuse since 1990.
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