AUSTRALIA
Herald Sun
Padraic Murphy
Herald Sun
CARDINAL George Pell shunned a young boy who begged him to help protect his brother from a notorious church paedophile, the child abuse royal commission has heard.
Witness BWF said he went to see Cardinal Pell at a Ballarat presbytery in 1973 after learning Brother Edward Dowlan was beating and molesting his brother at St Patrick’s College in Ballarat.
BWF said he went to see Cardinal Pell out of desperation after the school refused to take action to protect his brother.
“I wanted someone in authority outside the school to know about what was happening,” BWF said.
“(Cardinal Pell said) ‘Young man how dare you knock on this door and make demands.’ We argued for a bit and he finally told me to go away and shut the door.”
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