NEWCASTLE District Court Judge Ralph Coolahan slammed the charging of
an Anglican priest with child sex offences as a “disgrace”, and
described the priest’s alleged victims as “ridiculous”, in a
controversial 2001 court case under renewed investigation by NSW Police
and the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual
Abuse.
A transcript of the court case under consideration by the royal commission shows the late Judge Coolahan questioned the laying of charges against the priest and told a 2001 Newcastle court hearing: “The fact that someone is brought to trial, 26 years after an alleged offence, is in itself a disgrace.”
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A transcript of the court case under consideration by the royal commission shows the late Judge Coolahan questioned the laying of charges against the priest and told a 2001 Newcastle court hearing: “The fact that someone is brought to trial, 26 years after an alleged offence, is in itself a disgrace.”
http://www.theherald.com.au/story/4292093/late-judges-comments-in-the-spotlight/?cs=303