AUSTRALIA
ABC News
A New South Wales inquiry will this morning hear from the senior policeman who allegedly told whistleblower Peter Fox to stop investigating child sexual abuse by Catholic clergy in the Hunter Valley.
It is the second week of the Special Commissions public hearings and Detective Inspector Dave Waddell is today scheduled to give evidence.
He is currently the crime manager of the Tuggerah Lakes Area Command on the New South Wales central coast.
The inquiry is looking at how the NSW Police and the Maitland-Newcastle Catholic Diocese handled allegations of child sexual abuse by two priests.
Whistleblower, Detective Chief Inspector Peter Fox spent last week giving evidence.
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