ROME
Daily Mail
By ISABEL HUNTER IN ROME FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA
Cardinal George Pell was in good spirits today as he repeated his insistence that he would ‘of course cooperate’ with Victoria Police’s investigation into allegations that he sexually abused between five and ten boys.
The Cardinal and top aide to Pope Francis has rejected the allegations as ‘utterly false’ and said that he has still not been contacted by police on the matter.
He is the subject of a year-long investigation by Victoria Police for the alleged sexual abuse of up to ten minors from 1978 to 2001.
Regarding his health, which has prevented him from flying to Australia to give evidence to the Royal Commission on allegations that he covered up the abuse of minors while he was a priest in Ballarat, he said he was ‘holding up’.
‘I can’t travel on my doctor’s advice,’ he told Daily Mail Australia.
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