SUSPENDED Adamstown Anglican priest Reverend Chris Bird has been given six months to rehabilitate himself or be permanently removed from the church, in a decision published today by a church tribunal that includes shocking new allegations about the jailed abuser and defrocked former Dean of Christ Church Cathedral, Graeme Lawrence.
The Professional Standards Board determination accepts evidence that in 2018, months after the Royal Commission finished and with charges against him pending, Lawrence allegedly sexually forced himself on a then-23-year-old male parishioner after forcing him to watch graphic child pornography on Lawrence's mobile phone.
