The Anglican Paedophile Network of Newcastle
Australian True Crime
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4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2024
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
Anne Manne is a journalist and social philosopher.
Her new book, "Crime of the Cross", is about a paedophile network run by members of the Anglican Church in Newcastle in the 1980s and 1990s.
It's made me realise that the shocking details of the crimes committed by the Catholic clergy have almost blinded me to some of the other revelations brought into the light by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (2013).
This story has many similarities to those we've heard of the paedophile priest cluster in Ballarat, and the measures the Catholic Church went to to silence victims and protect offenders. However, there are also many significant differences.
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| 0:00.0 | We're bringing Australian True Crime live to Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne this July, |
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| 0:33.8 | contain content that may be triggering to some people. Also it's an Australian |
| 0:38.3 | true crime podcast so Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander |
| 0:41.9 | listeners should be aware it may contain the voices of deceased people. |
| 0:47.0 | The producers of this podcast recognize the traditional owners of the land on which it's recorded. |
| 0:59.0 | They pay respect to the Aboriginal elders past, present and those emerging. |
| 1:09.0 | These are crimes which are very much about the eroticization of power over a child. |
| 1:15.0 | And it's someone who's seeking out those opportunities. |
| 1:20.0 | You have to think that someone who has a perverse sexuality is actually going into the church, |
| 1:27.2 | either consciously or unconsciously, knowing that they are going to have availability of children and they are seeking out those opportunities. |
| 1:37.0 | And man is a journalist and social philosopher and her new book, Crimes of the Cross, |
| 1:47.0 | has taught me an enormous amount about a subject I thought I was reasonably well educated in, that's the sexual abuse of Australian children by members of religious clergy |
| 1:58.4 | Crimes of the Cross is specifically about a pedophile network run by members of the Anglican Church in Newcastle in the 1980s and 90s. |
| 2:07.0 | It's made me realize that the shocking details of the crimes committed by Catholic clergy have almost blinded me to some of the other |
| 2:15.2 | revelations brought into the light by the Royal Commission into institutional responses to child |
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