AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By Emilie Gramenz
A youth group operated by the Anglican Church will come under investigation during a week of public hearings in Hobart by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
Hearings into the Church of England Boys’ Society (CEBS), a children’s group similar to Scouts, run by the Anglican Church, will run from January 27 until February 5.
The Anglican dioceses of Tasmania, Adelaide, Sydney and Brisbane will come under scrutiny as the hearings investigate their responses to allegations of child sexual abuse connected with CEBS.
Of particular interest will be convicted paedophiles Louis Daniels, Garth Hawkins, Robert Brandenburg, Simon Jacobs and John Elliott.
The Anglican Church set up a board of inquiry in 2003 to examine allegations of a tri-state paedophile ring operating from the early 1960s into the 1990s.
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