AUSTRALIA
ABC News

By Dan Cox

The whistleblower behind an inquiry into child sexual abuse in the New South Wales Hunter Valley has been accused of lying to beef up his case of an alleged cover-up by the Catholic Church.

It is the fifth week of the Special Commission’s public hearings in Newcastle, with senior policeman Peter Fox giving evidence for the tenth day.

The second stage of the inquiry is investigating his claims senior Catholic clergy tried to cover up abuse by two priests.

The inquiry has previously heard a victim went to a Nelson Bay presbytery drunk and angry, accusing of priests of doing “filthy things to little boys”.