ROME
Herald Sun
Former police inspector Peter Fox, who alleged church and police cover-ups of pedophile priest offending in NSW’s Hunter Valley, has turned up to support abuse victims attending the testimony of Cardinal George Pell in Rome.
Mr Fox, who calls himself a “self-funded retiree”, is in Rome on holiday with his wife, Penny, but on Monday will be at the elegant Quirinale Hotel to hear Australia’s senior Catholic cleric give evidence by video link to the child abuse royal commission sitting in Sydney.
Cardinal Pell will be questioned over three to four days about what he knew of historic pedophile activity by priests when he served in Ballarat and Melbourne.
He is chief of the Vatican’s finances and has asked to give evidence by video link because of a heart condition that prevents him travelling to Australia.
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