Senior officer denies concern for clergyman’s reputation

AUSTRALIA
ABC – Lateline

At the Newcastle inquiry in sexual abuse in the Catholic Church, Detective Inspector Dave Waddell has denied he was worried about a senior clergyman’s reputation when deciding whether to investigate allegations of a coverup and that he had commented that there was no prospect of any prosecution as the key people were dead.

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