AUSTRALIA
7 News
By Dan Cox, ABC
Updated July 3, 2013
A New South Wales inquiry into child sexual abuse in the Hunter Valley’s Catholic Church has heard an angry victim went to a presbytery accusing priests of doing “filthy things to little boys”.
The inquiry is examining whether the Maitland-Newcastle diocese helped or hindered the police investigation into two paedophile priests, James Fletcher and Denis McAlinden.
The probe was sparked by senior policeman Peter Fox, who is giving evidence in Newcastle.
He told the hearing that in 1998 a victim of Fletcher was drunk and angry with the world – the night he went to a local presbytery yelling that priests do “filthy things to little boys”.
Peter Fox said a priest heard the comments and told him about it during a phone call, but he was surprised when it was not included in the priest’s official statement to police.
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