Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in the Newcastle Anglican diocese day six | live blog

By Joanne McCarthy
Updated December 12 2017 - 6:14pm, first published August 9 2016 - 9:50am
Defrocked former Newcastle Dean Graeme Lawrence
Defrocked former Newcastle Dean Graeme Lawrence

Tuesday, August 9

Day six wrap up:

  • Solicitor and former Newcastle Anglican trustee Keith Allen concluded giving evidence after being in the witness box for nearly three days. 
  • Allen denied “fixing” a statement that has wife, psychiatrist Sandra Smith, gave to the Royal Commission.
  • Child sex abuse survivor CKH gave evidence, he told the commission that priest Andrew Duncan first had sex with him when he was 14, in 1980, when Duncan came on a holiday with CKH’s family on a houseboat on the Hawkesbury River.
  • CKH said he believed rector of the church at the time, Graeme Lawrence knew of the sexual activity by 1980.
  • CKH told the royal commission Lawrence came to his family home in 1981, put CKH’s hand on Lawrence’s erect penis, and told him he could “have that any time”.

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