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24 February 2015

Royal Commission into Child Sex Abuse: Wollongong Bishop censured over John Nestor

Wollongong Catholic Bishop Peter Ingham erred by not making public the reasons behind the 2008 defrocking of priest John Gerard Nestor, the Royal Commission into Child Sex Abuse has found.
In a damning set of nine findings handed down on Friday, the royal commission takes aim at the Catholic Church and some of its officials for not making notes of potentially incriminating internal meetings with Nestor, and for the five years it took for an internal appeal process to run its course.

http://www.illawarramercury.com.au/story/2777085/wollongong-bishop-censured-over-defrocking/