AUSTRALIA
Newcastle Herald
By Joanne McCarthy Nov. 20, 2014
A NSW report into Hunter child sex allegations was ‘‘fundamentally flawed’’ after key evidence about ‘‘culpable arrangements’’ between NSW Police and the Catholic Church was not explored, NSW Parliament has been told.
The NSW Special Commission of Inquiry did not consider allegations last year about police involvement in the church’s Professional Standards Resource Group (PSRG) between 1998 and 2005.
This was despite a submission by Hunter detective Peter Fox to expand the inquiry to investigate the PSRG, and the production of police documents to the inquiry in June last year by NSW Greens justice spokesman David Shoebridge.
‘‘These are matters of the utmost seriousness with profound implications for public confidence in the administration of justice in NSW,’’ Mr Fox told the NSW Special Commission of Inquiry in a six-page submission on June 22, 2013.
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