AUSTRALIA
Newcastle Herald
By JASON GORDON June 24, 2013
AFTER a year of waiting for police to act on their investigations into alleged child abuse cover-ups within the Catholic Church, journalist Joanne McCarthy took her concerns to the Police Integrity Commission.
Making her much-anticipated appearance before the Special Commission of Inquiry in Newcastle yesterday, the Newcastle Herald journalist said her motivation stemmed from her desire to support abuse victims, one of whom had complained about how police had treated her.
She also told the inquiry that she had a heated conversation with then-Newcastle police commander and now Assistant Commissioner Max Mitchell.
“I rang him to get angry with him and to let him know that I wasn’t happy [about the way that an abuse victim had been treated by police],” Ms McCarthy told the inquiry.
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