AUSTRALIA
Sydney Morning Herald
November 9, 2012
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.
He also said he wasn’t sure if he would face disciplinary action for his comments, but did not care if he did.
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.
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