AUSTRALIA
Sydney Morning Herald
July 19, 2012
Leesha McKenny
Urban Affairs Reporter
THE NSW Premier, Barry O’Farrell, has urged the Catholic Church ”to do what appears to have been lacking in past investigations” and hand its findings into a priest’s alleged sexual abuse of altar boys to police.
Mr O’Farrell welcomed the church’s appointment this week of retired Federal Court judge Antony Whitlam, QC, to investigate its ”processes related to the management” of Father F, who stands accused of repeated abuse stretching back to the 1980s in Moree.
”I would urge the Catholic Church to do what appears to have been lacking in past investigations, which is the link with police,” Mr O’Farrell said.
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