Inquiry: Davoren Cross Examined

Newcastle Herald
July 30, 2013

http://www.theherald.com.au/story/1671172/inquiry-davoren-cross-examined/?cs=305

John Daveron outside the inquiry on Tuesday.

John Davoren of the Catholic church’s Professional Standards Office has come under intense cross examination by counsel for the police force Wayne Roser.

 At the special commission of inquiry in Newcastle on Tuesday morning, Mr Roser took Mr Davoren through a series of documents prepared in conjunction with complaints against serial paedophile the late Denis McAlinden.

Mr Davoren accepted that complaints were made to the church about McAlinden before 1997 but he had no knowledge of events that took place before he started his job in that year.

 Showing Mr Davoren a complaint form filled out in relation to McAlinden, Mr Roser suggested the form was never sent to police.

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"I categorically deny that," Mr Davoren said.

Tuesday’s hearings continue.