SINGAPORE
The Australian
July 10, 2017
TESSA AKERMAN
ReporterMelbourne
@TessaAkerman
Cardinal George Pell has passed through Singapore as he makes his way to Australia to face the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on multiple historical sex charges.
Less than two weeks after being issued a summons by Victorian Police, Australia’s highest-ranking Catholic spoke to the media in Singapore and was filmed eating an ice cream ahead of a court appearance in Australia scheduled for July 26.
Sitting in a Haagen-Dazs ice creamery in the city’s up-market Orchard Road area, Cardinal Pell rejected abuse allegations put to him by a passer-by. The man told the cardinal he had spoken to his mother who wanted to know whether Cardinal Pell was innocent.
“Tell her that I am,” Cardinal Pell responded.
Cardinal Pell was also stopped outside his Singapore hotel by Channel Seven and was asked whether he continued to deny the allegations.
Cardinal Pell declined to comment.
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