The Special Commission of Inquiry into matters relating to the police investigation of certain child sexual abuse allegations in the Catholic Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle started on May 6.
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The Premier announced the NSW Government proposed to establish a Special Commission of Inquiry into matters raised by Detective Chief Inspector Peter Fox in an ABC Lateline interview regarding the handling of certain child sexual abuse allegations.
Public hearings, held in the Newcastle Supreme Court, will continue until May 17. The inquiry will then sit from June 24 until July 12.
For our coverage of the first week's sitting, courtesy of reporter Elle Watson, check out the following:
Top sex crime cop gives evidence: The commander of the state's Police Sex Crimes Squad has given evidence to the Commission of Inquiry this morning.
Police: Fox was a troublemaker: The NSW Police Force has painted whistleblower Peter Fox as a troublemaker who passed on confidential documents to journalists to undermine the sex abuse investigation he was excluded from in 2010 in the hope he could write a book about it.
Conduct of officers ‘corrupt’: Former police office Troy Grant has denied claims that he warned Peter Fox about the “Catholic Mafia” – senior police who deliberately hindered investigations into paedophile priests.
Fox accused of sex abuse inquiry tip off to journalist: Peter Fox passed on confidential information to Newcastle Herald journalist Joanne McCarthy in an attempt to undermine a sex abuse investigation after he was dumped from it in 2010, according to a legal representative for the NSW Police Force.
Strike force was a ‘sham’: Peter Fox believed the senior police who ordered him to cease investigations into paedophilia within the Catholic Church were deliberately sabotaging the case.
Grant denies calling senior cops 'Catholic Mafia': A former police office turned politician has denied ever using the term "Catholic Mafia" to describe senior police who interfered with his investigations into Catholic Church paedophilia.
Suspicious Fox lied to police to protect child sex abuse inquiry: A senior policeman lied and deliberately withheld documents relating to child sex abuse by Maitland and Newcastle priests because of suspicions about why he was summonsed to a meeting with senior police.
Police searched my files, says Fox: Two senior Newcastle police searched the locked office of Detective Chief Inspector Peter Fox for documents exposing child sexual abuse by the Maitland Catholic clergy, a commission of inquiry heard yesterday.
Media out in force for child sex abuse inquiry: A contingent of more than 20 journalists and their camera crews occupied every seat of the designated media section of Newcastle Supreme Court for the first day of inquiry hearings into an alleged Catholic church cover up.
Child abuse inquiry starts in Newcastle: The country's first commission of inquiry into child sexual abuse within the Catholic Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle has started in Newcastle this morning.
Bishop prepares public to hear a lot of grim stories: Today marks the start of the first public hearings into child sexual abuse allegations within the Catholic Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle.
