AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By Dan Cox
A former removalist has told the child sexual abuse royal commission he felt sick when he found child pornography while packing the belongings of a Hunter Valley priest.
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse is examining the ways the Anglican Diocese of Newcastle responded to allegations by clergy and lay members of the church.
Gary Askie worked for Farragher Removalists in 1998 when he was asked to move the possessions of Anglican priest Peter Rushton.
The commission has heard Rushton worked across the Newcastle diocese from 1963, but allegations of sexual abuse involving him only came to light after his death in 2007.
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