ROME
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AAP
Clergy abuse victims have a message for Cardinal George Pell: no more trucking analogies.
Cardinal Pell has said the Catholic Church is no more legally responsible for priests who abuse children than a trucking company which employs a driver who molests women.
That 2014 comment to the child abuse royal commission attracted outrage, and abuse survivors say they do not want a repeat in Cardinal Pell’s evidence this week.
Ballarat victim Peter Blenkiron said he ground his teeth so hard the night after Cardinal Pell’s trucking analogy that he cracked a tooth, which had to be removed.
“It’s time for no more of that,” said Mr Blenkiron, who will be in the Rome hotel conference room for Cardinal Pell’s testimony.
“We’re hoping for the best but preparing for the worst – hoping that George will get up and say ‘yes we got this wrong, this is what we need to do’, and no more spin doctoring and trucking analogies.
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