AUSTRALIA
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Megan Neil
May 28, 2015
Pedophile priest Gerald Francis Ridsdale says he did not tell then-Father George Pell that he was abusing children.
Ridsdale and Pell lived in the Ballarat East presbytery together for about a year in the early 1970s.
Ridsdale told the child abuse royal commission he would have chatted with Father Pell but he did not tell him about his issues with children since his time in the seminary.
“No I don’t think so,” Ridsdale told the commission’s Ballarat inquiry on Thursday.
The commission has heard Ballarat Bishop Ronald Mulkearns told a meeting of his advisers, the College of Consultors, that it had become necessary to move Ridsdale from the parish of Mortlake in 1982.
Commission chair Justice Peter McClellan said it was incredible Ridsdale could not remember his discussions with Bishop Mulkearns about being removed.
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