AUSTRALIA
ABC News
The inquiry into child sexual abuse in the New South Wales Hunter Valley will hear more evidence from senior Catholic clergy when the public hearings resume this morning.
The inquiry has previously heard a victim of paedophile priest James Fletcher went to a Nelson Bay presbytery drunk and angry, accusing priests of “doing filthy things to little boys”.
Peter Fox, the senior policeman who sparked the special commission, said the parish priest at the time, father Bob Searle, told him about the incident but did not include the victim’s comments in his official statement.
Father Searle is expected to give evidence this morning when the eighth week of public hearings gets underway.
Father William Burston will also give evidence after the commissioner gave him a week’s reprieve because he had been “harassed” outside the inquiry by members of the public.
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