AUSTRALIA
ABC News
Victoria Police Chief Commissioner, Ken Lay, says he stands by the force’s submission the state’s child sex abuse inquiry.
Victoria Police claimed the Catholic Church had protected child sex offenders and interfered in police investigations.
In a new submission to the inquiry, the state’s most senior Catholic, Archbishop Denis Hart has refuted those allegations.
He says a Victoria Police allegation that the church has not engaged with investigators is misinformed, misleading and factually inaccurate.
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