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Presbyterian Church's general assembly moderator Right Rev Hamish Galloway had declined to compensate a sexual abuse survivor known as "Anna" on the grounds that the Presbyterian Support Services Association (PSSA) was a separate organisation from the Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa
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Bremner and denied advising her to destroy the documents. On 26 July, PSO CEO Jo O'Neill resigned from her position for undisclosed reasons. O'Neill had succeeded Bremner as CEO following her resignation. O'Neill had stated that "destroying the records
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Dunedin. O'Neill also testified that records about children housed under PSO's care had been deliberately destroyed by an alleged paedophile ring between 2017 and 2018. O'Neill also apologised to abuse survivors. In response to O'Neill's testimony, the Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand
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