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Two men have alleged Cardinal George Pell groped them in a Ballarat pool in the 1970s, claims Cardinal Pell has “emphatically denied”.
Source: AAP
27 JUL 2016
Two men have told Victoria Police they were abused as children by Cardinal George Pell when he was a priest in Ballarat in the 1970s.
Speaking to ABC’s 7.30, the men say Cardinal Pell would grope them while they swam at Ballarat’s Eureka Pool during the summer of 1978-79.
He would also often change in front of them.
“He’d undress and then he would say to us to undress,” Lyndon Monument told 7.30 on Wednesday.
“So we would undress and then he would teach you how to dry your testicles and in between your bum and stuff like that.”
Cardinal Pell was a priest in Ballarat in the 1970s and 80s before going on to become the Archbishop of Melbourne and Sydney.
He is now a cardinal in the Vatican.
Cardinal Pell has “emphatically and unequivocally” denied abuse allegations.
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