AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By Sarah Hawke
The former governor-general and Archbishop of Brisbane Peter Hollingworth has been found to have made a “serious error of judgement” for allowing a rector who admitted to abusing a child to continue in the ministry.
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has handed down its report into the response by the Church of England Boys’ Society (CEBS) and four Anglican dioceses into allegations of child sexual abuse.
Public hearings were held in Hobart in February 2016.
The report detailed the case of John Linton Elliot who the commission had been told abused a boy in the 1970s when he was a lay preacher at St Barnabas Anglican Church in Sunnybank, Brisbane, and also CEBS branch governor.
The boy know as BYB was about nine when the sexual abuse started, and it occurred almost on a weekly basis until he was 13.
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