AUSTRALIA
Armidale Express
BREANNA CHILLINGWORTH
July 6, 2016, midnight
THE Royal Commission will hold a public hearing into the Catholic Church’s handling of child sexual abuse allegations against paedophile priest John Joseph Farrell.
Farrell, or Father F as he was known, is one of the state’s most notorious paedophile priests and is currently serving 29 years jail for 79 offences after preying on young children while he was a Catholic priest in Moree, Tamworth and Armidale.
On Wednesday, the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse announced it would hold a public hearing into how the Catholic Church responded to the allegations when they were first raised.
The public hearing will be held in Sydney on September 12 and will examine how authorities in the Catholic Diocese of Armidale and the Catholic Diocese of Parramatta dealt with the allegations made against the now-defrocked priest.
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