{"id":66074,"date":"2017-12-07T11:26:36","date_gmt":"2017-12-07T16:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=66074"},"modified":"2017-12-07T11:58:51","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T16:58:51","slug":"newcastle-anglican-diocese-had-do-nothing-approach-to-child-sex-abuse-claims-royal-commission-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=66074","title":{"rendered":"Newcastle Anglican Diocese had &#8216;do-nothing&#8217; approach to child sex abuse claims, royal commission finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"first\">The royal commission into child sexual abuse has found powerful paedophiles in the Anglican Diocese of Newcastle were operating under weak church leadership.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday&#8217;s report follows\u00a0<a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2017-03-17\/anglican-church-ashamed-child-sex-abuse-royal-commission\/8363126\" target=\"_self\">another into the national Anglican Church which found that every church diocese in the country<\/a>, bar one, had received complaints of child sexual abuse in the past 35 years.<\/p>\n<p>The commission looked at alleged child abuse, bullying and cover-ups within the Newcastle diocese, producing a report of more than 400 pages just on the Newcastle Anglicans.<\/p>\n<p>It has found former Newcastle Anglican Bishop Roger Herft&#8217;s response to abuse was &#8220;weak, ineffectual and noted a failure of leadership&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2017-12-07\/report-on-child-sex-abuse-in-newcastle-anglican-archdiocese\/9237136\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The royal commission into child sexual abuse has found powerful paedophiles in the Anglican Diocese of Newcastle were operating under weak church leadership. Thursday&#8217;s report follows\u00a0another into the national Anglican Church which found that every church diocese in the country,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=66074\">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":[395,101,114,184,108,112,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-church-of-australia","category-children","category-law-legal-issues","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-sexuality","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66074","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=66074"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66076,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66074\/revisions\/66076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}