AUSTRALIA
The Mercury
AAP
Victorian investigators have not ruled out flying to Rome to investigate allegations of historical child sex abuse against Cardinal George Pell.
Victoria Police on Wednesday said they are considering whether to lay charges over alleged historical sexual assaults in Ballarat between 1976 and 1980 and East Melbourne between 1996 and 2001.
Police declined to say whether investigators would fly to Rome to interview Cardinal Pell after two men accused him of groping their genitals in the 1970s, while another says he saw the priest expose himself to young boys.
Cardinal Pell’s office has emphatically rejected the claims, calling them “without foundation and utterly false”.
Investigators sent a brief of evidence to the Office of Public Prosecutions in July but won’t say what kind of advice they have received.
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