A royal commission has heard more than 150 complaints
of child sexual abuse have been substantiated in the Maitland-Newcastle
Catholic diocese to date.
The Royal Commission into Institutional
Responses to Child Sexual Abuse shifted its focus to the Hunter region's
Catholic church, after spending weeks probing Newcastle's Anglican diocese.http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-08-31/royal-commission-catholic-hearing-begins/7800966