AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By James Hancock
A former director of Catholic Education Melbourne has firmly denied claims by Cardinal George Pell that management deceived him about the actions of accused paedophile priest Peter Searson.
Monsignor Thomas Doyle was one of four former officers of the Catholic education office to give evidence to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse today.
Earlier this year while speaking from Rome, Cardinal Pell accused management of the Melbourne Archdiocese of keeping him in the dark about allegations against Searson.
The inquiry heard the Doveton parish priest was accused of sexually abusing children from the 1970s to the 1990s.
Searson died in 2009 without conviction for child sexual abuse.
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