AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By Dan Cox
One of Australia’s most senior Anglicans, the Archbishop of Perth Roger Herft, has told a royal commission he would not report child sexual abuse allegations if he did not know the name of the alleged victim.
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse is holding public hearings in Newcastle.
The case study is examining the way the local Anglican diocese responded to allegations of child sexual abuse made against clergy and lay members of the church.
In giving evidence today, Archbishop Herft conceded the reporting mechanisms for dealing with child sexual abuse allegations were inadequate while he was the Bishop of Newcastle from 1993 to 2005.
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