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Police wrongly decided a Melbourne priest who indecently assaulted a girl during confession had not committed an offence, an inquiry has heard.
Victoria Police Assistant Commissioner Stephen Fontana said the 1990 investigation concluded there were “nil offences disclosed”.
“Quite clearly there was an indecency around it and to suggest that there was none, they suggested it wasn’t a sex offence, I disagreed with. I think the whole circumstance was surrounded with indecency,” Mr Fontana told the child abuse royal commission.
“I just didn’t agree with the original assessment that there was no offence.”
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