BALLARAT (AUSTRALIA)
CNN
March 24, 2019
By Hilary Whiteman, Anna Coren and Jo Shelley
Nearly 150 people would later tell an Australian royal commission looking into institutional sex abuse that they had been abused by Catholic priests and brothers across the diocese from the 1960s to the early 1990s.
“The amount of kids I saw get taken out of class, sexual abuse was rampant, was definitely rampant, there’s no other way you could put it. That’s what it was; they were doing it all the time,” says abuse survivor Phil Nagle.
Some of Australia’s worst pedophiles were preying on children in Ballarat, then a city of about 60,000 people.
Now after Pell’s conviction on five charges of sex offenses against two choirboys in Melbourne’s St. Patrick’s Cathedral in the 1990s, Ballarat locals are again examining who knew what — and what went so wrong.
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