AUSTRALIA
Daily Mail
By Khaleda Rahman For Daily Mail Australia
A special fund has been established so Australian Catholics can help pay for Cardinal George Pell’s legal fees as he fights charges of historical sexual abuse.
Victorian Police have charged the cardinal, a former Melbourne and Sydney archbishop and Ballarat priest, with multiple sex offences but the details of those offences have not been released.
Australian Catholic authorities have ruled out paying the cardinal’s legal team.
However, a litigation fund has been established for Catholics in Victoria to contribute to Pell’s legal fees, the Herald Sun has revealed.
John Roskam, the executive director of the Institute of Public Affairs, said he obtained an account number and BSB from people ‘assisting the cardinal’ and passed it onto people keen to donate.
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