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By Megan Neil
May 20, 2015
UPDATE: Cardinal George Pell has responded to allegations he tried to bribe victims of pedophile priests.
In a statement released Wednesday night he said he was horrified by survivors’ accounts of the abuse they had suffered.
“The crimes committed against them by priests and brothers are profoundly evil and completely repugnant to me,” he said.
“A number of claims have been made concerning my own response during these years… Over the last 24 hours I have been accused of being complicit in the moving of a known paedophile, of ignoring a victim’s complaint, and of bribery.”
Cardinal Pell felt the matters required an urgent response due to ‘false and misleading headlines’.
Timothy Green, 53, alleged he was 12 or 13 when he told then Father Pell in late 1974 that Brother Edward Vernon Dowlan was abusing boys at Ballarat’s St Patrick’s College.
Cardinal Pell said he did not recall having the conversation and that to the best of his believe “the conversation did not happen”.
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