AUSTRALIA
Daily Mail
[with video]
By Brianne Tolj For Daily Mail Australia
The third most senior cardinal in the Catholic Church has been charged with historic child sex offences stemming from multiple complainants.
Australia’s Cardinal George Pell, 76, has been summonsed to Australia from Rome after being charged by police and is due before Melbourne Magistrates court on July 18.
The charges have been presented to Cardinal Pell’s legal team and lodged with the court, Victoria police revealed on Thursday.
Cardinal Pell has been accused of sexually abusing and grooming boys.
The allegations date back to when Pell was a priest in Ballarat, Victoria, and Archbishop of Melbourne.
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