AUSTRALIA
The Australian
TESSA AKERMAN THE AUSTRALIAN MAY 20, 2015
Cardinal George Pell tried to bribe a victim of pedophile priest Gerald Ridsdale to keep quiet and dismissed another abuse victim’s complaint as ridiculous, the royal commission has heard.
The Vatican’s finance chief will again have to answer to the sex abuse royal commission after David Ridsdale, the nephew of Australia’s worst pedophile priest, said he told Cardinal Pell in 1993 about the abuse at the hands of his uncle.
David Ridsdale, the nephew of Australia’s worst pedophile priest, says he told Cardinal Pell in 1993 about the abuse at the hands of his uncle.
He told the royal commission today that Cardinal Pell, a family friend, asked him in a phone call: “I want to know what it will take to keep you quiet.”
Mr Ridsdale said Cardinal Pell started talking about his growing family and that he may soon have to buy a car or house.
He said his response was “f… you George and everything you stand for”.
After he hung up, Mr Ridsdale said he told his sisters about their phone conversation.
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