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Child abuse royal commission: defrocked Anglican dean denies leading group of paedophile priests
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.
Mr Lawrence has been labelled one of the most influential priests in Newcastle’s history, with a strong sphere of supporters that…