ROME
Huffington Post
Australian clerical abuse victims have arrived in Rome as Cardinal George Pell gets set to take the stand at the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
The Ballarat clerical abuse victims have made the 16,000 kilometre trip to the Italian capital as Pell readies to front the commission on Monday, Australian time, to give evidence about his time as an adviser to former Ballarat bishop Ronald Mulkearns.
Some of the survivors are said to have touched down in Rome on Saturday morning.
The commission usually hears evidence in Australia, but Pell has been excused from fronting it in person for medical reasons.
Abuse survivor David Ridsdale said the group didn’t know what to expect.
“What I do know is that everything we’ve achieved is because of the group of survivors who have come forward and stuck together,” he told Macquarie Radio Network.
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