AUSTRALIA
ABC News
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A senior serving police officer, Detective Chief Inspector Peter Fox, claims the Catholic church covered up crimes of paedophile priests, silenced investigations and destroyed crucial evidence to avoid prosecutions in the Newcastle-Hunter area of New South Wales.
Suzanne Smith
Transcript
TONY JONES, PRESENTER: Tonight a senior serving police officer alleges the Catholic Church covers up crimes of paedophile priests, silences investigations and destroys crucial evidence to avoid prosecutions.
Detective chief inspector Peter Fox has spent more than 30 years as an investigator and has been at the centre of major police operations in the Newcastle-Hunter area of New South Wales.
He’s written a letter to the Premier, Barry O’Farrell, calling for a Royal Commission.
Mirroring police evidence given to the Victorian inquiry, he says in his letter, “Many police are frustrated by this sinister behaviour which will continue until someone stops it.”
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