AUSTRALIA
ABC – Lateline

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Broadcast: 09/05/2013
Reporter: Jamelle Wells

Peter Fox the whistleblower who sparked the Newcastle inquiry into sexual abuse in the Catholic Church in the Hunter region has been accused of undermining the strikeforce set up to investigate sexual abuse.

Transcript
TONY JONES, PRESENTER: Police whistleblower Peter Fox has been accused of undermining the police strike force set up to investigate child sexual abuse in the Hunter. The Commission of Inquiry also heard claims he’d breached a court order by tweeting information from within the hearing. Jamelle Wells reports from Newcastle.

JAMELLE WELLS, REPORTER: Detective chief inspector Peter Fox has spent four days being grilled about the police investigation into allegations of child sexual abuse by former priests Denis McAlinden and Jim Fletcher in the Maitland-Newcastle Diocese, but he says he’s determined to get to the bottom of the…