AUSTRALIA
Herald Sun
Cardinal George Pell may have aided cover-up of Australia’s worst paedophile, royal commission hears
SHANNON DEERY HERALD SUN MAY 19, 2015
CARDINAL George Pell may have unwittingly helped protect Australia’s worst paedophile priest by moving him between parishes and covering up his evil crimes, it had been alleged.
In explosive allegations before the royal commission into sexual abuse this morning it was alleged the high-ranking Cardinal sat on a committee that protected notorious paedophile Gerald Ridsdale.
Ridsdale, who has spent decades behind bars, has admitted molesting at least 54 victims but it has been estimated he molested more than 200 children while being shuffled around parishes.
Cardinal Pell has persistently denied knowing the extent of offending by notorious paedophile Gerald Ridsdale before he controversially accompanied him to a court hearing in 1993.
But the commission heard this morning he sat on a committee in September 1982 that considered Ridsdale’s offending when deciding to move him on.
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