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ABC News
Hunter Valley clergy abuse survivors say the local Diocese will ‘continue to bleed’ unless tougher action is taken against two senior priests criticised by a Special Commission of Inquiry.
Monsignor Allan Hart and Father William Burston have been stood down from advisory roles in the wake of the Commission’s findings.
But the two priests are still performing their parish roles.
The report into cover-ups was scathing of the church’s handling of the now dead paedophile priests Denis McAlinden and James Fletcher.
Monsignor Hart and Father Burston was asked to say what they knew.
The Commission described their evidence as unimpressive.
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