Newcastle’s Anglican Diocese has again talked up its commitment to stop child sexual abuse in the wake of a former youth worker being charged with abusing several boys.
Yep: All just meaningless hot air.
As always, it took someone from outside of the churches to report this horrendous serial mass-rapist.
Here is one recipe required order to do something truly effective:
  1. Shut down the churches forthwith, and sell off the stolen loot.
  2. Every bishop and priest to hand themselves into either Police, or the Hague
are you listening, Bishops?

In a statement, Newcastle’s Anglican Diocese says it has invested significant resources and is strongly committed to addressing the issue of current and historical child sexual abuse cases.

How can a Diocese say anything? Note the absence of anyone taking responsibility again. Shameful.

“committed to addressing the issue”?? How more weasel-like can these hypocrites get?

What about helping to root out the offenders that you know of, but have yet to be caught by the cops?

That would be a big help.

James Michael Brown, 60, is now facing 68 child sex offences after a further 28 charges were formally laid in Maitland Local Court yesterday.

Truly disgusting. Both the number, and the time scale of the crimes. To suggest that he managed to keep these child rapes a personal secret from the church authorities over this length of time truly beggars belief.

Police allege Brown abused eight boys in the Lower Hunter and Bathurst between 1974 and 1991.

He was employed by Newcastle’s Anglican Diocese as a youth worker at the time and was also a member of the management committee at the St Alban’s Childrens’ Home at Aberdare, near Cessnock.

Who were the other members of this committee? We have a right to know.

Brown’s case was heard briefly in Maitland Local Court yesterday and adjourned to October.

ABC Story here…