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| | Paying for sins | SA | The Australian |
 | | Shearman, now 80, went on to become the youngest Anglican bishop in Australia, and the first to be defrocked after Heinrich's story became public. |
 | | The Bishop of Bathurst, Richard Hurford, wrote Heinrich a letter in which the church apologised unreservedly for Shearman's "sexual abuse and moral corruption of a minor". |
 | | It is a problem, Gerber says, that has occurred in the vast majority of dioceses in the country, and metropolitan dioceses occasionally contribute some of the costs in settlements made by less cashed-up rural or regional parishes. |
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