AUSTRALIA
9 News
A senior NSW police officer who reported being sexually abused by clergy has been waiting more than a year for police to take action, a former Catholic priest says.
Kevin Lee, who is supporting calls for a royal commission into child sex abuse by the church, says the high-ranking officer has seen his own case delayed by 18 months with no arrests made since he came forward with his allegations.
“If it’s hard enough for a police officer to get justice, then how much harder must it be for an average person to get some sort of action?” he told ABC Lateline on Friday.
Father Lee, a former priest at Padre Pio parish in Glenmore Park, said he ended up leaving the church and became a private investigator after church leadership failed to deal with sex abuse cases – and even dismissed his own complaints as hearsay.
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