AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By Guy Stayner
The current Bishop of Brisbane ignored complaints about notorious paedophile priest Gerald Ridsdale, the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has heard.
Bishop Brian Finnigan was the secretary to the Bishop of Ballarat in the 1980s.
In 1981, he took a phone call from concerned parents in Mortlake about Gerald Ridsdale.
Counsel Assisting Angus Steward read a statement from the parents.
“We said that the enquiry was related to the safety of our son,” he read.
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