AUSTRALIA
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KAITLIN THALS PM News Reporter
Cardinal George Pell to defend new allegations against him in Royal Commission.
Cardinal George Pell will be called on to defend allegations he ignored child sex abuse complaints within Victorian institutions – including those by a nephew and victim of a notorious pedophile priest.
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse continued on Wednesday, with David Ridsdale, the nephew and victim of Australia’s worst pedophile priest Father Gerald Francis Ridsdale, telling the royal commission he told Cardinal Pell in 1993 about the abuse.
David told the commission Cardinal Pell, a family friend, asked him: “I want to know what it will take to keep you quiet.”
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