AUSTRALIA
Sydney Morning Herald
June 24, 2013
Paul Maguire
A journalist has told an inquiry that she wrote a series of newspaper articles about child sexual abuse by priests because she wanted to help the victims.
Newcastle Herald journalist Joanne McCarthy’s articles, over two years from 2010, led to the establishment of the special commission of inquiry into child abuse allegations in the Hunter region and won her a top national award for investigative journalism.
“It was my only objective,” Ms McCarthy told Commissioner Margaret Cunneen in the Newcastle Supreme Court on Monday.
“It was about having the victims and their families looked after.
“I didn’t want to go the police.
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