Joy Conolly says delay hearing case of former Anglican archbishop’s handling of abuse allegations has taken toll on victims
A school psychologist who complained about former governor general and Anglican archbishop Peter Hollingworth’s handling of child abuse allegations says she has “lost faith” in the protracted and secretive complaints process relied on by the church.that could defrock him over his handling of abuse allegations while archbishop of Brisbane. The hearing is taking place more than five years after complaints were made to the Anglican church’s complaints body, Kooyoora.
“It’s been put off so many times. And I’ve written so many reports, and they’re all exactly the same, and nothing has changed. These girls … they haven’t gone on to lead good lives, not at all. And it’s heartbreaking,” she told the Guardian. The child abuse royal commission found that Hollingworth, as archbishop of Brisbane in 1993, failed to act to remove a lay preacher, John Linton Elliot, despite Elliot having admitted to him that he had abused two boys. One of the survivors had also told him he had been abused by Elliot and a psychiatrist, tasked with assessing Elliot, told Hollingworth the teacher “was a paedophile and that his personality type was untreatable”.
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