AUSTRALIA
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WHAT HAPPENED
He’d had enough. Detective Chief Inspector Peter Fox of the NSW Police had investigated too many cases of child sex abuse over the length of his career to keep silent any longer.
He simply had to speak out. It cost him his career, as he knew it likely would, but he spoke out anyway.
By lifting the lid on years of sexual abuse cases in the Hunter region, and an alleged police cover-up of sex abuse in the Catholic Church, Peter Fox sparked nothing less than a sweeping Royal Commission into child sex abuse.
The details of many of the cases Fox investigated are horrific. He outlined some of those details in a revealing interview on late night television, and a nation was sickened to the core.
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