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Updated Thu Oct 11, 2012 9:27am AEDT

A Melbourne lawyer’s submission to the Victorian Parliamentary Inquiry into the Handling of Child Abuse alleges that in the 1960s George Pell was in the room when a young boy told another priest he had been raped. The Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney says Cardinal Pell has stated several times he will appear at the inquiry if he is asked to do so.

Samantha Donovan

Transcript

TONY EASTLEY: It’s possible that Australia’s most senior Catholic, Cardinal George Pell, will be called to give evidence at the Victorian Parliamentary Inquiry into the Handling of Child Abuse.

In her submission Melbourne lawyer Viv Waller has told the inquiry that in the 1960s George Pell heard a young boy tell another priest he’d been raped by a Christian Brother.

Dr Waller is speaking here with AM’s Samantha Donovan.

VIV WALLER: I’ve…