AUSTRALIA
Newcastle Herald
IAN KIRKWOOD
9 Aug 2016
A MAN whose complaints against the former dean of Newcastle Graeme Lawrence and three other priests led to their expulsion or suspension from the clergy told his story to the Royal Commission on Tuesday afternoon.
Given the psuedonym CKH, the 51-year old recounted a tale of grooming by priests that began in 1980 when a priest, Andrew Duncan, performed oral sex on him at the age of 14.
As well as Duncan and Lawrence, he would go on to have sex with Lawrence’s partner, teacher Greg Goyette, and two other priests, Bruce Hoare and Graeme Sturt.
The commission heard of his encounters with these men until 1985, when he began to reassess the situation and made him believe he had been “duped” and that experiences he had originally believed he was in control of were “in the nature of abuse”.
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