AUSTRALIA
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Victoria’s corruption watchdog is the right body to investigate into how details of allegations against Cardinal George Pell became public, the state’s attorney-general says.
Victoria Police’s Taskforce Sano has spent a year investigating allegations Cardinal Pell sexually abused five to 10 victims while he was a priest in Victoria, the Herald Sun reported on Saturday.
The Catholic Church has described the allegations as being “without foundation and utterly false”.
It believes they were leaked at a time “clearly designed to do maximum damage to the Cardinal and the Catholic Church”.
Cardinal Pell is due to give videolink evidence from Rome to the child sex abuse royal commission in Sydney about unrelated matters.
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