AUSTRALIA
9 News
AAP
Further claims about Cardinal George Pell’s knowledge of child sex abuse by priests are expected to be aired at a royal commission.
Witness BWF will testify on Tuesday at the child abuse royal commission’s inquiry into widespread abuse in Victoria’s Ballarat diocese.
Mr BWF is expected to give evidence about a conversation he had with Cardinal Pell in the 1970s while he was a student at St Patrick’s College in Ballarat, senior counsel assisting the commission Gail Furness SC said.
Cardinal Pell, now the Vatican’s financial chief, was a Ballarat East assistant priest and Episcopal Vicar for Education in the Ballarat diocese for a decade from 1973.
He has repeatedly denied claims he tried to bribe a victim to keep quiet, ignored complaints and was involved in moving pedophile priest Gerald Francis Ridsdale to another parish.
Note: This is an Abuse Tracker excerpt. Click the title to view the full text of the original article. If the original article is no longer available, see our News Archive.