Cardinal George Pell gives evidence to the royal commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse via videolink from Rome. When asked about his time in Ballarat and if anyone had come to him about teachers and principals being ‘overly affectionate or in some way touching them’,he says he can’t remember any such complaints but, ‘My memory might be playing me counterfeit.’ When asked, or ‘So it may bear happened but you can’t remember now?’,Pell objects, saying: ‘No I deem you’re putting words into my mouth. I don’t remember any such thing happening and therefore I don’t believe it did. But my memory is sometimes fallible’Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com