AUSTRALIA
SBS
An inquiry into abuse by NSW priests has heard claims of a “gross, grubby and black conspiracy” by a whistleblower to hinder police are baseless.
Source AAP
Two pedophile priests were able to get away with years of abusing children in the NSW Hunter Valley because “a lot of good men did nothing”, an inquiry has been told.
A special commission is examining how Catholic church officials and police handled child sex abuse allegations involving priests James Fletcher and Denis McAlinden.
In his final public submission on behalf of whistleblower policeman Peter Fox, lawyer Mark Cohen said on Monday many people had failed to act to protect the child victims.
“A lot of good men have done nothing, and this has allowed the ilk of James Fletcher and Denis McAlinden to do what they did,” he said.
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