AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By Dan Cox
A man has told a royal commission’s public hearings he was 15 years old when he was first sexually abused by the defrocked former Dean of Newcastle, Graeme Lawrence.
The man, who can only be identified as CKH, has given evidence at the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
It is examining the ways the Anglican Diocese of Newcastle responded to child sexual abuse allegations by clergy and lay members of the church.
The man said he became a member of St Alban’s Anglican Church at Griffith around 1979, and was 14 years old when church deacon Andrew Duncan had sex with him during a family holiday on a houseboat in 1980.
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