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Ben Brennan – Yahoo7 News on July 27, 2016
Police in Victoria are investigating multiple child abuse accusations against Australian Cardinal George Pell.
The ABC reports Taskforce SANO has been investigating allegations against Australia’s most senior Catholic for a year. The claims originate from his home town of Ballarat, as well as from Torquay and Melbourne.
Cardinal Pell has unequivocally rejected the claims as totally untrue.
Taskforce SANO was set up to investigate claims stemming from the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
It has reportedly passed its case to Victoria’s Office of Public Prosecutions for advice.
According to ABC, two men in their forties say the Cardinal touched them inappropriately at Ballarat’s Eureka swimming pool in the summer of 1978-79.
Torquay businessman Les Tyack also gave a statement to the royal commission saying that in 1986-87 he found Cardinal Pell naked in the Torquay Surf Life Saving Club change rooms with three boys aged between eight and 10.
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