Fed: Crean calls on Hollingworth to respond to abuse allegations

AAP General News (Australia)
12-14-2001
Fed: Crean calls on Hollingworth to respond to abuse allegations

Opposition Leader SIMON CREAN has called on Governor-General PETER HOLLINGWORTH to
respond to allegations that he knew of sexual abuse in his former Brisbane diocese.

Mr CREAN says he supports Dr HOLLINGWORTH, the former Anglican Archbishop of Brisbane,
but it is in the public's interest for the matter to be cleared up.

A Supreme Court jury last week ordered the Anglican Diocese of Brisbane to pay more
than $830,000 in damages to a former female student at the school who was sexually abused
11 years ago.

The Anglican Church claims Dr HOLLINGWORTH and the diocese had no knowledge of the
events until after a teacher from the Toowoomba school accused of the abuse committed
suicide in 1990.

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KEYWORD: CHILD HOLLINGWORTH (CANBERRA)

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