AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By Dan Cox
A former police officer brought in to clean up the Anglican church in Newcastle, which had faced years of child sexual abuse allegations, says he has “no doubt” harassing phone calls and attacks on his home were related to his work.
Michael Elliott told the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse he was appointed the diocese’s professional standards director in 2009.
The commission’s Newcastle 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.
Mr Elliott told the commission he had not been in the job long when the Bishop at the time, Brian Farran, handed him a bundle of envelopes containing allegations of child sexual abuse.
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