AUSTRALIA
Daily Mail
By ISABEL HUNTER IN ROME and LIAM QUINN FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA
Child sex abuse survivors will be able to sit in the same room as Cardinal George Pell as he gives evidence to the royal commission via video link from a hotel in Rome.
Commission chair Justice Peter McClellan ruled the request from survivors and anti-child abuse advocates was ‘reasonable’, clearing the way for them to make the trip and to watch Cardinal Pell’s testimony.
‘The royal commission has received requests from some survivors that they be able to be present in the room where Cardinal Pell give evidence in Rome next week,’ Justice McClellan said before delivering the opening address at commission’s third stage of hearings in Ballarat, Victoria, on Monday. …
Ballarat victim Andrew Collins said it was important Cardinal Pell’s testimony was given under the same conditions as survivors – in a public forum rather than sitting in a room by himself.
‘It’s also very important for our healing as well to be a part of that,’ Mr Collins said.
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