Cheryl Woodman, the chairwoman of the professional standards board of the Anglican Catholic Church in Australia, attended the meetings and disputed several claims made by the Adelaide archdiocese in its defence of accusations by independent senator Nick Xenophon.
Senator Xenophon said that as vicar-general of the archdiocese, Monsignor Cappo had failed to act on allegations made in 2007 by Archbishop Hepworth that he was raped by a Catholic priest 40 years ago. Archbishop Hepworth also alleged he had been sexually assaulted by priests John Stockdale and Ronald Pickering, now dead, while he was a seminarian.
Senator Xenophon used parliamentary privilege this week to name Ian Dempsey as the alleged rapist. Monsignor Dempsey, from the Brighton parish in Adelaide, has strongly denied the claims. To read more, click here.
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