AUSTRALIA
ABC News
[with video]
The special commission of inquiry into allegations of child sexual abuse by the Catholic Church in the New South Wales Hunter Valley has been formally opened.
The inquiry is separate to the national royal commission into institutional abuse and was announced by the NSW Government last year.
The State Government made the move after Detective Chief Inspector Peter Fox went on the ABC’s Lateline program to say the Catholic Church and police were guilty of a cover up of sexual abuse by priests in the Maitland diocese.
Opening the inquiry, Commissioner Margaret Cunneen SC spoke of the devastating effect sexual abuse has on a child by exploiting their vulnerability.
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