AUSTRALIA
ABC News
Dan Cox
The former Bishop of the Hunter Valley’s Catholic Church has told a New South Wales inquiry he did not take child sexual abuse allegations to police because it was not what the victims wanted.
Former Bishop Michael Malone is the first Church witness to come under examination at the inquiry.
He was the head of the Maitland-Newcastle Diocese from 1995 to 2011.
Senior policeman Peter Fox sparked the Special Commission with claims the Church protected two paedophile priests, Denis McAlinden and James Fletcher.
Bishop Malone will be back in the witness box this morning.
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