AUSTRALIA
Gay Star News
09 JULY 2013 | BY ANDREW POTTS
Whistleblower Detective Chief Inspector Peter Fox has told a New South Wales (NSW) state inquiry into allegations that police helped cover up sex crimes by Catholic priests that a priest destroyed gay porn owned by another priest who abused children.
Fox told Australia’s ABC TV channel in 2012 that priests had destroyed evidence ‘before we were able to secure it’ when he had been investigating sex abuse claims against Catholic priests in the Hunter Valley region.
Fox told the inquiry that the evidence he alleges was destroyed was a cache of gay porn including videos and magazines found in a presbytery.
Fox told the inquiry that he believed the pornography had been removed and destroyed because it was owned by Father Jim Fletcher – who was later convicted of child abuse.
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