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WITNESSES FOR ROYAL COMMISSION INTO MELBOURNE ARCHDIOCESE ABUSE:
CARDINAL GEORGE PELL
* Now Vatican financial chief
* Melbourne archbishop 1996-2001
* Auxiliary bishop of Melbourne 1987-1996
* Gives evidence week of December 14
ARCHBISHOP DENIS HART
* Melbourne archbishop since 2001
BISHOPS: Former vicars-general and auxiliary bishops of Melbourne archdiocese PETER CONNORS and HILTON DEAKIN
THOSE WHO SPOKE OUT:
* Former Melbourne priest PHILIP O’DONNELL – Told a Victorian inquiry then Melbourne Archbishop Frank Little (now dead) was told of allegations against a priest in 1970s, archdiocese knew about clergy abuse allegations since at least 1950s
* Former Holy Family Primary School (Doveton) principal GRAEME SLEEMAN – Complained about Doveton parish priest Peter Searson and resigned when nothing was done about him
* Former Holy Family Primary School teacher CARMEL RAFFERTY – Told Victorian inquiry group of teachers complained to Pell in early 1990s about sex abuse allegations against Searson
OTHERS INCLUDE: Four abuse survivors; former director of Catholic Education for Melbourne Father Thomas Doyle; Victoria Police assistant commissioner Stephen Fontana; Former principal of North Richmond’s St James Primary School Patricia Taylor.
Originally published as Pell and Hart among commission witnesses
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