AUSTRALIA
7 News
By Emily Bourke, ABC
Updated November 10, 2012
The NSW Government’s decision to establish a special commission of inquiry into the police force, rather than the Catholic Church in relation to allegations of sexual abuse by priests, has been labelled a decoy.
The by Premier Barry O’Farrell came in response to who claimed the church actively and systematically hampered police investigations into paedophilia in the New South Wales Hunter region.
The allegations have prompted renewed calls for the resignation of Catholic Cardinal George Pell and a nationwide royal commission to investigate decades of sexual abuse of children and alleged cover ups by the Catholic Church.
The New South Wales inquiry will look at how police handled claims of sexual abuse by priests in the Hunter region.
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