AUSTRALIA
PerthNow
By Rebekah Ison, Australian Associated Press
November 23, 2016
A defrocked NSW Anglican priest says a card he sent an alleged sex abuse victim showing a man’s penis and captioned “thank heavens for little boys” was meant to be a “fun thing”.
Former Dean of Newcastle Cathedral Graeme Lawrence has also denied knowing the details of cards and letters sent by his boyfriend Greg Goyette, who talked to the alleged teen victim about lubricants and “educational” videos that he may find “edifying” in the early 1980s.
The sex abuse royal commission has heard the then-teenager, known as CKH, alleges ongoing sexual contact from the age of 17 with both Mr Goyette and Mr Lawrence, who was then rector of St Alban’s at Griffith.
At 19, CKH received a card from Mr Lawrence captioned “thank heavens for little boys for little boys grow bigger every day”.
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