AUSTRALIA
Herald Sun
Andrew Bolt, Herald Sun
May 12, 2017
So many allegations against Cardinal George Pell have been dropped and disproved, and police are still unable after a year to prosecute Pell over shaky claims aired on the ABC.
But now one of the ABC reporters responsible for that report tries again:
A soon-to-be-released book about Cardinal Pell contains detailed claims that he sexually abused two choirboys at St Patrick’s Cathedral in Melbourne in the late 1990s….
In her television report from last year, Milligan referred to allegations that Cardinal Pell had also been accused of abusing two choirboys, but the book contains details that have never before been made public.
The boys, who were both students at St Kevin’s College in Toorak and sung in the choir at St Patrick’s Cathedral in East Melbourne, were allegedly abused in a back room of the church.
Of course, I don’t know whether the allegations are true or false.
But the timing of the alleged abuse – which Pell denies – is very odd. Is it really likely that Pell, having been under fiercely hostile scrutiny by the media over his conservatism and his attempts to clean out pedophiles in his church and compensate victims, would then risk everything by abusing boys himself?
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