AUSTRALIA
RTE News
The Vatican’s Australian-born finance controller is being investigated in relation to multiple allegations of child abuse in his home country, police have said.
Victoria state Police Commissioner Graham Ashton told a Melbourne radio station programme that Victoria police had been investigating allegations against Cardinal George Pell, the for more than a year.
“The investigation is ongoing,” Mr Ashton told Radio 3AW, confirming an Australian Broadcasting Television report yesterday that detailed allegations of abuse dating from the 1970s to the 1990s in interviews with alleged victims.
In a statement issued in Rome yesterday, Cardinal Pell’s office said he “refutes all the allegations made on the programme”.
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