AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By Dan Cox
The Special Commission of Inquiry into claims of a Catholic Church cover-up returns to Newcastle.
The inquiry into child sexual abuse within the Hunter Valley’s Catholic Church has heard there is a “total commitment” by New South Wales Police to investigate allegations of abuse.
The special commission’s public hearings have wrapped up but the legal representatives for the key witnesses have been given the opportunity to make oral submissions.
The inquiry’s first part is looking at whistleblower senior policeman Peter Fox’s claims he was ordered to stop investigating two paedophile priests.
Representing New South Wales Police, Wayne Roser told the commission “officers at all levels take allegations of child sexual abuse, and allegations of concealment, seriously”.
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