{"id":55279,"date":"2016-08-02T17:00:16","date_gmt":"2016-08-02T17:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/shocking_catalogue_of_child_rape_by_anglican_clergy_unfolds_in_australia\/"},"modified":"2016-08-02T17:00:16","modified_gmt":"2016-08-02T17:00:16","slug":"shocking_catalogue_of_child_rape_by_anglican_clergy_unfolds_in_australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=55279","title":{"rendered":"Shocking catalogue of child rape by Anglican clergy unfolds in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A devastating story of mass child rape perpetrated by an Anglican paedophile ring is unfolding in the latest hearing of Australia&#8217;s Royal Commission into child sexual abuse.<\/p>\n<p>The first day of the two-week sessions heard of the crimes perpetrated by Rev Peter Rushton, an Anglican priest who was Archdeacon of Maitland and who died in 2007.<\/p>\n<p>His catalogue of child rape and abuse was finally exposed by an ABC investigation. He led a paedophile ring involving other clergy and lay people from the Newcastle diocese over as many as four decades.<\/p>\n<p>Rushton&#8217;s godson, Paul Gray, told how he was taken to St Alban&#8217;s School for Boys in Hunter Valley. This was the 1960s, and boys would be anally and orally raped by groups of men in a locked room called the &#8220;f***ing room&#8221;, according to Daily Mail Australia.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christiantoday.com\/article\/shocking.catalogue.of.child.rape.by.anglican.clergy.unfolds.in.australia\/92093.htm?print=1\">Read it all<\/a> from Christian Today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A devastating story of mass child rape perpetrated by an Anglican paedophile ring is unfolding in the latest hearing of Australia&#8217;s Royal Commission into child sexual abuse. The first day of the two-week sessions heard of the crimes perpetrated by<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=55279\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,48,39,50,395,74,204,101,168,114,435,184,177,112,34,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-anglican-church-of-australia","category-anglican-provinces","category-australia-nz","category-children","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-law-legal-issues","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-sexuality","category-theology","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}