G-G Hollingworth may face police probe, Anglican Bishop’s ‘affair’ with 14-y-o, allegation re 10-y-o

The woman who made the allegations also will tell a Church inquiry in Brisbane how Dr Hollingworth, as Anglican Archbishop of Brisbane, protected a bishop who had sexually abused her.
  The woman said yesterday she was considering an invitation by NSW police to submit a fresh complaint against the now-retired bishop, Donald Shearman. Police said their offer came after intervention by NSW Police Minister Michael Costa.
  Police sources said investigators were likely to invite Dr Hollingworth to explain his knowledge of the alleged abuse of the woman by Bishop Shearman when she was a student in the mid-1950s at a Church boarding school in Forbes, in central western NSW.
  The woman has accepted an invitation by the current Brisbane Archbishop, the most Rev. Phillip Aspinall, to give evidence to a Brisbane diocese inquiry examining diocese documents, including papers relating to the complaint against Bishop Shearman.
  Dr Hollingworth weathered a storm of protest in February after it was revealed that while archbishop in 1995 he took no action against Bishop Shearman after a meeting in which the bishop admitted his abuse of the girl, which began when she was 14.
  After Dr Hollingworth resigned to become Governor General last year, the Bishop Administrator, the Right Rev. Richard Appleby, withdrew Bishop Shearman's permission to officiate.
  Dr Hollingworth had to apologise to the woman at a meeting in Government House in March after suggesting in a television interview that she had initiated sex with Bishop Shearman.
  The woman said that though she had accepted the apology, she believed the Brisbane inquiry should be told all the facts. Within several hours of Dr Hollingworth hearing of Bishop Shearman's abuse at the 1995 meeting, the then archbishop telephoned her.
  "He asked me what I wanted him to do," she said. "I wrote to him and said that at least Donald Shearman should be stopped from preaching."