AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By Dan Cox
A police whistleblower has told an inquiry into an alleged cover-up of clergy sexual abuse in the New South Wales Hunter Valley he “makes no apologies” for his pursuit of justice.
Senior policeman Peter Fox claims the Maitland-Newcastle Catholic Diocese covered-up abuse by Father Denis McAlinden and Father James Fletcher.
Documents tendered this week show church officials, including three former Bishops, knew about the abuse by both men.
Peter Fox has today told the Commission if he had the documents in 2003, when he was investigating the paedophiles, it would have sparked a “major investigation” requiring three or four detectives.
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