AUSTRALIA
Newcastle Herald
By JOANNE McCARTHY
Feb. 13, 2013
AUSTRALIA’S first formal commission of inquiry into child sexual abuse will hold all hearings in Newcastle, it was announced today.
Commissioner Margaret Cunneen, heading the NSW Special Commission of Inquiry, today confirmed that the first hearing will be held in Newcastle for two weeks from May 6.
The commission will open with evidence about police handling of allegations relating to a Catholic church cover-up of crimes committed by pedophile priest Denis McAlinden.
A three-week hearing into the church’s handling of allegations against McAlinden, spanning four decades, will also be held in Newcastle from June 24.
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