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Cardinal George Pell understood of child sexual assault by priests in Australia as early as the 1970 s but failed to act, a landmark query found.
The findings on Cardinal Pell – an ex-Vatican treasurer – come from Australia’s royal commission into kid sexual assault, which ended in 2017.
Information were only revealed on Thursday. A court had actually previously edited the report because the cleric was dealing with child abuse charges at the time.
The cardinal has actually rejected the findings.
He said he was “shocked” by the questions’s report, adding: “These views are not supported by evidence.”
Cardinal Pell was founded guilty of kid abuse in 2018, however last month was released from prison after Australia’s leading court reversed his conviction.
What did the query discover about Pell?
In over 100 pages worrying Pell’s actions, the commissioners found the primary knew of paedophile priests both early in his profession, and as he progressed.
In specific, the commissioners dismissed the cleric’s long-stated defence that he didn’t understand about the actions of his former associate Gerard Ridsdale. in the Victorian city of Ballarat.
Ridsdale remains in prison for hundreds of child abuse offenses – and is considered Australia’s worst founded guilty paedophile priest.
” We are satisfied that in 1973 Dad Pell turned his mind t