A NSW Supreme Court judge has rejected a Catholic Church application
to suppress the names of senior church officials with knowledge of a
notorious Hunter paedophile priest, in a woman’s case that the church
should have stopped him from raping her from the age of five.
Justice Desmond Fagan criticised Maitland-Newcastle diocese for providing the woman with church documents about paedophile priest Denis McAlinden with the names of church officials blacked out, including a 1976 letter from the late Monsignor Patrick Cotter in which the monsignor acknowledged McAlinden’s “inclination… towards the little ones”.
http://www.theherald.com.au/story/3812686/judge-refuses-church-black-out-on-names/
Justice Desmond Fagan criticised Maitland-Newcastle diocese for providing the woman with church documents about paedophile priest Denis McAlinden with the names of church officials blacked out, including a 1976 letter from the late Monsignor Patrick Cotter in which the monsignor acknowledged McAlinden’s “inclination… towards the little ones”.
http://www.theherald.com.au/story/3812686/judge-refuses-church-black-out-on-names/