AUSTRALIA
Daily Mail Australia
March 1, 2019
By Hannah Moore
* Cardinal George Pell, 77, was found guilty of child sex offences from 1996
* He was due to face a second trial, focused on allegations from the 1970s
* It was thrown out due to issues with evidence, but accuser’s family are not upset
* Sister of accuser Lyndon Monument says family thinks justice has been served
* Senior legal counsel have suggested if Pell testified he may have walked free
The sister of a man who claims Cardinal George Pell sexually assaulted him in a public pool in the 1970s has released a statement on behalf of her family following his conviction.
Karen Monument, sister of Lyndon Monument, told The Age the four years since her brother came forward publicly with allegations against Pell had been dark and difficult.
In her family’s first statement since Pell’s conviction for sexually assaulting two 13- year-old choirboys in a separate case, Ms Monument slammed those who had come out in defence of Australia’s top Catholic in the wake of his conviction, saying it was ‘her turn to speak’.
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