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Annette Blackwell – AAP on July 27, 2016
The Hunter Valley in NSW, best known for its wine industry, is about to become the focus of major inquiries into pedophile activity by Anglican and Catholic clergy.
On Wednesday, the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse confirmed that within weeks of an inquiry into an alleged pedophile ring operating in the Anglican Diocese of Newcastle it will open an investigation into the Catholic Church in the Hunter.
The Anglican inquiry starts on Tuesday and will run until August 12.
It will concentrate on what senior Anglican clergy did to stop priest Peter Rushton and a network of pedophile clergy accused of preying on children for decades.
These hearings are not the first to concentrate on child abuse in the Hunter.
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