AUSTRALIA
Daily Review
BY DAILY REVIEW
Last week Tim Minchin caused more than a storm when he released his song Come Home (Cardinal Pell) viewed by more than one million people; he helped kickstart donations of more than $200,000 from 4,500 people for 15 victims of sexual abuse fly to Rome.
They fly out today to watch Cardinal George Pell give video-link evidence before the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. He is giving evidence about about sexual abuse in the 1980s by priests in the Ballarat diocese.
Read Minchin’s unedited statement below:
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“Many very serious questions remain about George Pell’s conduct as a leader of an institution that failed to curb decades of rampant child sexual abuse within its hallowed walls. This failure has resulted in hundreds of innocent people suffering lifelong emotional and physical damage. A shocking number have committed suicide.
Whilst his actions and appearance suggest a man in good health, Pell asserts that he is too ill to travel to Australia to answer these questions at the Royal Commission into Institutional Child Sexual Abuse.
And so today, thanks to the generosity of the Australian public, fifteen Ballarat Survivors will fly to Rome. They would not have been able to afford to do so without you.
These incredibly brave men and women will sit in a room with George Pell while he gives evidence via video-link to the Royal Commission. We hope that he will look them in the eye and tell them everything he knew.
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