AUSTRALIA
SBS
A senior NSW officer who says he was stood down after uncovering explosive claims of clergy sex abuse is demanding Premier Barry O’Farrell act now.
A senior police investigator has publicly challenged NSW Premier Barry O’Farrell to launch a royal commission into child sex abuse by clergy, saying the premier is lucky his own children haven’t become victims too.
Detective Chief Inspector Peter Fox, who has investigated clergy abuse around Newcastle for decades, wrote an open letter to the premier and then criticised the state government’s continued failure to launch a judicial inquiry on national television.
“We’re lucky. We haven’t had to go through what some of those other families have gone through,” he told ABC’s Lateline on Thursday, noting that Mr O’Farrell is the father of two boys.
“He has a lot of thanks to give that his boys were never ever abused. … If he has any compassion and humanity for some of these victims, he’s got to turn around (his position).”
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