Two abuse survivors have quit a Royal Commission advisory group in ongoing fallout from a convicted sex offender being allowed to mingle with the group.
The two men say the commission's new chair Judge Coral Shaw downplayed the incident, when it became public two months ago.
One of them, Michael Chamberlain of Dunedin, told reporter Phil Pennington, that despite Judge Shaw's assurances the survivor advisory group, or "sage" has been largely ignored by commissioners.
