A defrocked Anglican dean has vehemently denied at a
royal commission hearing that he was the leader of a group of child
abusers, but admitted he failed to act when he "suspected" a priest in
his charge was having sex with a teenage boy.
The ex-dean of
Newcastle, Graeme Lawrence, has returned to the witness box in Sydney
after beginning his evidence last week when he was questioned intensely
about the events leading up to his defrocking in 2012.http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-11-23/defrocked-dean-denies-leading-group-of-paedophile-priests/8049308