Interviews Wanted with Clergy from Nz

Radio New Zealand
November 13, 2012

http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/120790/interviews-wanted-with-clergy-from-nz

A group that investigates church-related sexual abuse says clergymen from New Zealand are among those that Australian police want to interview.

The federal government is setting up a Royal Commission to investigate how institutions including schools, foster homes and churches have handled accusations of abuse.

The Catholic church in New Zealand says its officials will investigate the handling of a paedophile priest who came from Australia to Hamilton in the 1980s.

But John McNally of Broken Rites, a support group in Australia, says that case is the tip of the iceberg, and the police want to talk to some members of the Catholic order, St John of God.