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Neil Keene
From: The Daily Telegraph
May 09, 2013
FORMER policeman and Nationals Party MP Troy Grant has vowed to tell “any inquiry that wants to hear it” about his knowledge of decades of alleged child sex abuse cover-ups within the Catholic Church.
A nun who allegedly tipped off a paedophile priest the night before police were to interview him was among those within the church in Mr Grant’s sights yesterday as he spoke outside a commission of inquiry being held in Newcastle.
The Dubbo MP said he had evidence of senior clergy cover-ups dating back to 1974, which he would share with the inquiry in its second round of hearings next month.
“Their level of culpability has never been tested in the court, they’ve never been questioned or put before their peers to answer for what they did,” he said.
“What they did in 1974, 1975, 1981 and then 1995 meant that a lot of (church abuse) victims need not have been victims, that’s where the tragedy is.”
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