AUSTRALIA
Herald Sun
Andrew Bolt, Herald Sun
ABC reporter Louise Milligan has peddled an implausiby lurid claim: that Cardinal George Pell caught two choir boys drinking altar wine after Mass at St patrick’s Cathedral and made them give him oral sex.
Melbourne University Press has even published Milligan’s book claiming detailing this allegation, which police have spent more than a year investigating.
And now a priest who was always with him at Mass at this cathedral says it simply could not have happened.
But first: from the very start this allegation seemed almost literally unbelievable.
Pell, an ambitious man then in his late 50s, would suddenly do something so reckless and criminal – something he’d never been accused of before?
Pell would force two boys to do this, knowing how much higher the risk was of being reported and found guillty?
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