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A victim who was raped daily while living with notorious paedophile Gerald Ridsdale at a presbytery in Mortlake says he finds it unfathomable that Cardinal George Pell didn’t know he was being sexually abused.
Paul Levey was sent to live with Ridsdale in the Mortlake presbytery after his parents separated when he was 14 in 1982.
In a harrowing statement presented to the hearing Mr Levey said he was “sexually abused all the time just about every day”.
“I had my own bedroom at the presbytery but that was just a front. I always slept in Ridsdale’s room where there were two beds. No-one else lived in the presbytery,” it read.
Australia’s most senior Catholic accepted no responsibility for Ridsdale’s offending telling the inquiry he had no knowledge of his crimes.
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