AUSTRALIA
Daily Mail
By LUCY MAE BEERS and BRIANNE TOLJ FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA and AAP
Cardinal George Pell is facing multiple child abuse allegations after two men came forward claiming they were groped by the Catholic cleric at a pool in the 1970s.
The men, who were in a Victorian primary school at the time, say Cardinal Pell, 74, abused them while they were swimming at Ballarat’s Eureka Pool during the summer of 1978-79, an allegation the cardinal strongly denies.
One of the men, Lyndon Monument, told ABC’s 7.30 he was reluctant to speak up because of the power Cardinal Pell held.
‘I didn’t like it, but because it was a church and he was George Pell, we just – you just weren’t game to ever say anything, you know what I mean,’ Mr Monument told 7.30.
The two men, now in their 40s, have given separate statements to Victoria Police’s special Taskforce Sano last year.
ABC reported that several other complaints have been made against Cardinal Pell to the taskforce, including an alleged incident involving two boys in the 1990s.
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