AUSTRALIA
7 News
By Tom Nightingale, ABC
July 6, 2012
There are calls for police in New South Wales to open an investigation into three senior priests of the Catholic Church who failed to inform police of a priest’s apparent admission of child sex abuse.
This week the a priest known as Father F met with three church leaders and admitted in that meeting to serious criminal behaviour involving altar boys in Moree and Parramatta dating back to the 1980s.
After the meeting he was suspended from the priesthood, although he remained a lay member of the church for 13 years after that.
The church responded to the Four Corners claims by denying there was any admission during the 1992 meeting with Father Brian Lucas, Father John Usher and Father Wayne Peters.
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