AUSTRALIA
Newcastle Herald
TRANSCRIPTS: Special Commission of Inquiry
By JASON GORDON July 5, 2013
PAEDOPHILE priest Denis McAlinden offered to hand himself into police if senior clergy saw fit, but none of them did.
The chilling offer came in a letter penned by McAlinden to then Maitland-Newcastle Bishop Michael Malone in 1995.
The letter was tendered to the Special Commission of Inquiry in Newcastle Friday, and later released to the Newcastle Herald.
To read the letter, click here.
It follows the release of numerous other letters which suggest that senior Hunter clergy not only knew of McAlinden’s offending, they failed to alert police.
The December 8 letter was penned by McAlinden in Western Australia as he sought to save himself from church moves to strip him of his priestly duties.
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