Alan (Sean) McCartney

Alan McCartney was a member and leader of the Church of England Boys’ Society (CEBS). CEBS is an adjunct organisation to the Anglican Church of Australia. The first branch was established in Kew, Victoria in 1914 and the organisation’s main purpose was to help boys between six and 16 years of age to develop spiritually, mentally, physically and socially. Various CEBS branches were established within numerous dioceses of the Anglican Church. In Queensland, South Australia and Tasmania all CEBS branches have now ceased to operate.

Alan McCartney was associated with the Charlton Boy’s Home in Ashfield, Sydney. On the weekends he would take boys from the Home to Nowra in south-eastern NSW on what were known as “incentive programs". When these programs first started, Alan McCartney would take groups of five to 10 children and they would sleep in a church hall in Nowra. Eventually the number of boys dwindled down to just two or three boys who would stay at Alan McCartney’s house in Bomaderry, just north of central-Nowra. As a leader in CEBS, Alan McCartney was in a position to take advantage of his power and trust to physically and sexually abused boys who were taken on these camps and isolated.

It is reported that Mr McCartney had been charged by NSW Police with thirty three offences in relation to the sexual and physical abuse of six victims. He appeared in Nowra Court in August 2021.

Moody Law has recently represented a client who has made allegations of sexual and physical abuse against Alan McCartney when he was a leader in the Church of England Boys’ Society in New South Wales.

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