AUSTRALIA
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by David Chambers on 08/12/2015
Graeme Sleeman says he wrote to Cardinal Pell, then the Melbourne archbishop, about a decade after he resigned as principal of Doveton’s Holy Family Primary School in 1986 in frustration that nothing was done about parish priest Peter Searson.
“I put my career on the line”. In testimony for the Royal Commission’s investigation, witnesses have charged that the cardinal was aware of a widespread abuse and even that he attempted to secure a victim’s silence by offering a bribe.
Then the archbishop ended the call. Mr Sleeman agreed with Cardinal Pell’s barrister Sam Duggan that the archbishop first said “I can’t do that”. Graffiti calling for Cardinal George Pell to be jailed has appeared on a building in Melbourne.
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