AUSTRALIA
Newcastle Herald
By MICHELLE HARRIS Sept. 24, 2013
THE Maitland-Newcastle Diocese “simply overlooked” 25 years of paedophile priest Denis McAlinden’s offending “in the interest of avoiding some scandal”, the Special Commission of Inquiry has been told.
Barrister for Detective Chief Inspector Peter Fox, Mark Cohen, told the inquiry on Tuesday morning McAlinden had been moved around almost constantly from diocese to diocese, and to PNG and New Zealand, from 1969 to the 1990s to ensure he was “kept out of the way”.
By December 1971 it was observed McAlinden had left PNG because he was “very rough with the native people”.
By May 1976, McAlinden had been “run out of town again”from Forster-Tuncurry “by angry parents”, Mr Cohen said.
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