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By Dan Cox, ABC
Updated June 28, 2013

A senior policeman has told a New South Wales inquiry into child sexual abuse within the Catholic Church he was abused by a priest.

Former Central Hunter Local Area Commander Superintendent John Gralton told the special commission of inquiry at Newcastle Supreme Court he was assaulted in front of 40 other students by a priest at his Catholic school.

He said he gave a statement to an investigator, as well as the details of five or six other students who were indecently assaulted at school.

Superintendent Gralton told the inquiry any suggestion there were efforts to stop investigations was “abhorrent”, “offensive at the highest level” and “could not be further from the truth”.