AUSTRALIA
ABC – Lateline
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Broadcast: 29/05/2014
Reporter: Tony Jones
A Special Commission Of Inquiry into sexual abuse and the alleged cover-up in the New South Wales Hunter region is due to hand down its findings tomorrow.
Transcript
TONY JONES, PRESENTER: A special commission of inquiry into sexual abuse and alleged cover-up in the New South Wales Hunter Region is due to hand down its findings tomorrow, but part of the final report will kept confidential.
The special commission investigated allegations against clergy and police in the Catholic Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle.
The inquiry was sparked by whistleblower Detective Chief Inspector Peter Fox.
Commissioner Margaret Cunneen SC heard evidence about how the police and the Church responded to paedophilia within the Church, including the activities of the now-deceased priests, Denis McAlinden and James Fletcher.
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