AUSTRALIA
NEWS.com.au
A COMMISSION of inquiry into alleged Catholic Church cover-ups of child sex abuse in a NSW diocese will formally open in Sydney on Wednesday.
The special commission of inquiry was announced by NSW Premier Barry O’Farrell in November, following explosive allegations made to the media by Detective Chief Inspector Peter Fox.
The senior investigator asserted the church had covered up evidence in relation to pedophile priests and hindered – and in some cases silenced – police investigations in relation to child abuse in the Catholic diocese of Maitland-Newcastle in the Hunter region of NSW.
Inspector Fox also said he was asked to stop investigating certain matters relating to sex abuse in the diocese, and in January the terms of the special inquiry were amended to examine the circumstances of this.
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