Dogged journalist would not walk away from abuse victims

By Rachel Browne
Updated August 26 2014 - 5:08pm, first published 1:33am
Cost: Joanne McCarthy. Photo: Brock Perks
Cost: Joanne McCarthy. Photo: Brock Perks

It was a random phone call in 2006 that set Newcastle Herald journalist Joanne McCarthy on a path which ultimately exposed the extent of horrific crimes by paedophile priests and led to the royal commission into child sexual abuse.

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