AUSTRALIA
Sydney Morning Herald
May 6, 2013
EDITORIAL
Detective Chief Inspector Peter Fox will take the stand on Monday in the first public hearings of the NSW Special Commission of Inquiry into whether the Catholic Church hindered his and other investigations into child abuse.
The inquiry is welcome for victims in the Newcastle-Maitland diocese. It comes as non-church research shows most complainants feel they have been re-victimised by the relevant institutions and reports suggest a shortfall in NSW policing has left child abuse suspects uncharged.
But the start of the investigation also raises important issues of overlap with concurrent federal and Victorian inquiries.
In particular, the public needs to be sure key evidence and testimony in Victoria about allegedly suspect clergy can be used readily and legally by the NSW inquiry.
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