AUSTRALIA
Maitland Mercury
By ELLE WATSON May 8, 2013
A former police office turned politician has denied ever using the term “Catholic Mafia” to describe senior police who interfered with his investigations into Catholic Church paedophilia.
Nationals member for Dubbo, Troy Grant, was the second witness to give evidence on day three of the Commission of Inquiry into the alleged cover-up of child sexual abuse within the Catholic Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle.
Mr Grant rejected claims by Detective Chief Inspector Fox that he said there was a “Catholic Mafia” – members of senior police hindering investigations into sexual abuse by priests.
“I have no reason to have used that term because I have and saw no interference with my investigation,” Mr Grant told the commission.
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