AUSTRALIA
Sky News
A victim of sex abuse says Archbishop George Pell ‘slammed a door in his face’ when he tried to pursue a claim against the church.
An inquiry in Sydney has been told in the initial stages of a complaint against the Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney by abuse survivor John Ellis, Cardinal Pell wrote to him saying the case could not be resolved because the priest concerned was in no state to respond.
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse is examining Mr Ellis’ experiences when he went through the church’s internal process Towards Healing and then civil litigation.
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