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A FORMER Anglican bishop of Tasmania promoted a paedophile priest to Archdeacon of Burnie despite being told about his abuse of young boys, a royal commission has heard.
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse is holding public hearings in Hobart today.
Counsel assisting Naomi Sharp’s opening address has given harrowing details of persistent sex abuse against young boys in Tasmania at the hands of Anglican priests during the 1970s and 1980s.
The commission is inquiring into abuse perpetrated by Anglican priests and other men involved in The Church of England Boys’ Society and how that institution responded when the abuse was revealed.
The society was a youth movement connected to the church, known for its camping trips.
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