AUSTRALIA
Milton Ulladulla Times
By Catherine Armitage June 26, 2013
The late-night email set out how to wipe email trails and mask mobile calls to keep them secret. But the contact between Peter Fox and Joanne McCarthy was nevertheless exposed.
As relationships go, this one has caused a lot of trouble – for the police, the Catholic Church, NSW Premier Barry O’Farrell and even the Prime Minister. Now it’s all being laid bare in the Newcastle Supreme Court.
Fairfax Media journalist McCarthy is being grilled in the witness box at the special inquiry into how police and Catholic Church priests and officials handled allegations of sexual abuse in NSW’s Hunter Region.
The inquiry was set up by the NSW Premier after a whistleblower policeman, Detective Chief Inspector Peter Fox, went on ABC’s Lateline last November, alleging a cover-up. The Prime Minister called a separate royal commission on child sexual abuse days later.
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