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The Dominion Post
July 13, 2002
Sex abuse hotline fields 12 complaints
A
sex abuse hotline set up by the Catholic Church has so far received 12
complaints.
New Zealand Catholic Church spokeswoman Lyndsay Freer
said on Thursday that about 25 calls had been received since the line was set
up a week ago, 12 of which had been referred to the church's regional
complaints protocol committees.
Society of Mary spokesman Father Allan Jones said that since the society's line
had been set up a fortnight ago it had received 12 other complaints of sex
abuse. Six complaints related to former priest Alan Woodcock, who allegedly
abused several boys in the
Father Jones said the order would investigate all the complaints.
Meanwhile, Upper Hutt CIB head Detective Sergeant Murray Porter said he had
completed his investigation into nine sex abuse complaints against Woodcock and
would forward his report to