AUSTRALIA
Sky News
Lawyers acting for the Catholic Church and Cardinal George Pell offered to waive $500,000 in legal costs if a survivor of child sexual abuse agreed not to appeal against a court ruling.
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse is examining the experiences of John Ellis, who unsuccessfully pursued civil litigation against the church and Sydney Archbishop Cardinal Pell for the abuse he suffered an altar boy.
Mr Ellis told the commission he understood the church had accepted as fact his abuse at the hands of Father Aidan Duggan at Christ the King’s Church in Bass Hill, Sydney from 1974 to 1979.
But when the matter reached court, church lawyers questioned his honesty.
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