AUSTRALIA
The Australian
Dan Box
From:The Australian
July 18, 2012
SENIOR NSW politicians including Premier Barry O’Farrell have called for police to investigate a former priest at the centre of the latest sex abuse scandal to engulf the Catholic Church.
Richard Torbay, the independent member for the Northern Tablelands, which includes the Diocese of Armidale, wrote to Mr O’Farrell on Monday to express “grave concerns” about the church’s inquiry into the abuse.
The former priest, who lives in Armidale and is known as Father F for legal reasons, allegedly abused several altar boys during the 1980s, despite church authorities being warned about him at the time.
The bishops of Armidale and Parramatta yesterday said they had commissioned former Federal Court judge Tony Whitlam QC to conduct an “independent inquiry” into alleged abuse by Father F in both dioceses.
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