AUSTRALIA
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ABCUpdated October 11, 2012
A submission to the Parliamentary Inquiry into Clergy Sex Abuse alleges the head of the Australian Catholic Church refused to speak with a child who had been raped.
Lawyer Vivian Waller says in 1969, her client attempted to tell Cardinal George Pell he had been abused by the principal of St Alipius Parish School in Ballarat, in central Victoria.
Cardinal Pell was a parish priest at the time.
Dr Waller alleges Cardinal Pell, who was an Archbishop at the time, refused to speak with the victim, but was in the room when the rape was detailed.
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