AUSTRALIA
The Courier
By Melissa Cunningham June 22, 2015
A BALLARAT clergy sexual abuse survivor says he was targeted by perpetrators due to his disability and claims Cardinal George Pell ignored his pleas for help.
Paul Lyons who is profoundly deaf told The Courier he will submit a witness statement to challenge the senior Catholic at the second round of Royal Commission hearings later this year.
Mr Lyons said he had been inspired by the strength of other survivors to go public.
Mr Lyons will allege Cardinal Pell was present when he told another priest he had been brutally raped by Christian brother teacher Robert Best, aged 9, at St Alipius in Ballarat East.
Cardinal Pell said he was studying at Oxford at the time the rape.
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