AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By Giselle Wakatama
The retired Hunter Valley policeman who raised concerns about missing boys’ home documents says he is relieved records have been found, but alarmed he was not told about them.
Greg Harding, who pursued convicted paedophile and ex-St Albans board member James Michael Brown, on Friday said his investigations had showed decades of documents from St Albans boys’ home were either missing or destroyed.
However, later that day, a Newcastle University archivist responded to the concerns, saying documents did exist and were stored in the university archives.
The St Albans boys’ home is expected to be part of a Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse case study looking at abuse allegations in Newcastle’s Anglican diocese.
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