AUSTRALIA
Newcastle Herald
By JASON GORDON and MICHELLE HARRIS June 2, 2014
AMID all the rage, vindication and soul-searching that has followed the Special Commission of Inquiry’s report into child sexual abuse cover-ups, police commissioner Andrew Scipione still had the plight of victims foremost in his mind during a visit to Newcastle yesterday.
But while he ‘‘took comfort’’ from the commission’s findings that no ‘‘Catholic mafia’’ existed within Newcastle’s police ranks and was ‘‘proud’’ of his officers involved in the investigations, he refused to be drawn on questions about Detective Chief Inspector Peter Fox.
Mr Fox, while on extended sick leave, is still a police officer – one who was heavily battered by the commission’s findings, and one who the commission found had ‘‘exaggerated’’ evidence and at times been ‘‘deliberately untruthful’’.
Almost ironically, victims of sexual abuse by Catholic clergy have rushed to support Mr Fox despite the commission’s adverse findings against him.
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