AUSTRALIA
The Guardian (UK)

Melissa Davey
theguardian.com, Monday 18 August 2014

After coming under fire from three witnesses at the 16th public hearing of the royal commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse, the independent commissioner appointed by the Melbourne Catholic archdiocese to investigate sex abuse claims, Peter O’Callaghan QC, will face the court on Tuesday morning.

He did not appear on day one of the public hearing on Monday after more than two hours of power outages delayed the proceedings.

The court had heard how two men – Father Kevin O’Donnell and Michael Glennon – were responsible for 73 of the 326 sexual abuse complaints upheld by the Melbourne archdiocese.

They were investigated as part of the church’s Melbourne Response scheme established by Cardinal George Pell. That scheme will be the subject of the hearing over the next fortnight, which will hear from many of the…