SYDNEY (AUSTRALIA)
News.com.AU
April 7, 2019
The sentencing of Cardinal George Pell garnered mixed reactions last month, as the convicted child sex offender was handed a six-year prison sentence for his horrific child sex crimes.
Some celebrated. Others were outraged.
But for one man, who wishes to remain anonymous, the case hit much too close to home.
In a news.com.au exclusive, he shares his harrowing story.
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It’s been a tough few months for those of us sexually abused as kids.
The final dark moments of George Pell’s life as a free man were unmissable; plastered across newspapers, computer screens and TVs.
Watching Pell’s sentencing was quite something.
The way he abused those boys was similar to my own experiences. It was molestation betrothed with power.
Paedophilia is a funny word because in the minds of the public it can be both a verb and a noun. An act as well as the name of a desire. I believe Pell’s lust — like my own abuser’s — was for power, not little boys.
In short, Pell is a paedophile in that he sexually abused children, but I doubt he is a paedophile in the sense of maintaining sexual desire for children.
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