AUSTRALIA
Maitland Mercury
By ELLE WATSON May 8, 2013
Peter Fox believed the senior police who ordered him to cease investigations into paedophilia within the Catholic Church were deliberately sabotaging the case.
Detective Chief Inspector Fox resumed his evidence for the second day of the Commission of Inquiry into the alleged cover-up of child sexual abuse within the Catholic Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle.
Inspector Fox told the inquiry the December 2010 meeting with senior police, during which he was ordered to cease investigating any matters relating to sexual abuse by the clergy, was “sinister”.
“I thought the direction was motivated by other matters that weren’t honest and were corrupt,” Inspector Fox said.
When he protested, Inspector Fox was told he would have no role or function in the new investigation dubbed Strike Force Lantle.
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