In the article ‘A Cautionary Tale’, I wrote about how a 20-year-old young woman Emma Nicholls, a sufferer from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and with other mental and physical issues, had been abused by her mother Lee Nicholls, by parishioners, staff and ordained and lay leadership of Figtree Anglican Church and by the then Senior Minister’s wife, Helen Irvine, to conflate her pathetic delusion that there was a ‘special chemistry’ between her and the father of one of her girlfriends into accusations of child sexual abuse, grooming and sexual harassment. As that article noted, of the complaints made originally by the young woman’s mother (who had intended to remain anonymous even from her daughter) seven were rejected by the diocesan investigator as unsustainable (including one of the only two complaints concerning Emma when she was under the age of 18), leaving only one complaint when Emma was aged 16 and four complaints over a short period November 2006 to January 2007 to be further considered. These are all denied by Dr. Dobbs.
Now the matter has been considered by a six-person Professional Standards Committee (PSC) of Sydney diocese. The story goes on and the injustice continues to be heaped on the whole family.
A Cautionary Tale – the cover-up begins