AUSTRALIA
ABC News
[with video]
A New South Wales police whistleblower says he put himself and his family through hell campaigning for a royal commission into child sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.
A Special Commission of Inquiry is examining how NSW Police and the Maitland-Newcastle Catholic Diocese handled allegations of child sexual abuse by two priests.
The Commission was sparked when Detective Chief Inspector Peter Fox aired claims on ABC TV’s Lateline program that his superiors ordered him to stop investigating the allegations as part of Strike Forces Lantle, set up in late 2010, and Georgiana, set up in 2007.
Detective Fox spent his fourth day in the witness box refuting claims by police barrister Wayne Roser SC that his appearance on Lateline had been scripted, but he did agree he was campaigning for a royal commission into child sexual abuse.
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