AUSTRALIA
The Australian
DAN BOX THE AUSTRALIAN DECEMBER 20, 2013
THE Catholic Church has won a NSW Supreme Court bid to deny two alleged victims of child sex abuse access to records about their alleged abuser, a member of the Marist Brothers order at the centre of the current royal commission hearing.
The decision comes just days after the church’s barrister, Peter Gray SC, told the commission it was committed “to ensure that nothing is concealed or covered up in respect of what church personnel did or failed to do”.
Court documents seen by The Australian reveal the church’s national committee responsible for caring for those who suffer child abuse itself challenged the victims’ request to seek documents about the late Edward Hosey.
Both alleged victims, who cannot be named, claim they were sexually abused by Hosey at two Marist Brothers’ schools in Sydney during the 1960s and 1970s.
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