AUSTRALIA
Illawarra Mercury
Kate McIlwain
@kmcilwain
7 Feb 2017
A number of senior church figures linked to Wollongong have been called to give evidence at the royal commission, as the commissioners focus on the extent of child sexual abuse in the church over the past seven decades.
The list of more than 60 witnesses in the three week hearing, which began on Monday, includes respected canon lawyer and former chancellor of the Diocese of Wollongong Moya Hanlon.
Sister Hanlon appeared at the hearing into former Wollongong priest John Gerard Nestor. Nestor’s conviction and jail sentence for the indecent assault of a 15-year-old altar boy was overturned in in 1997; he was thrown out of the church in 2008 after more allegations of abuse emerged.
Sister Hanlon is listed among a panel of three other canon lawyers.
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