Cardinal allowed to give evidence to royal commission via video link from Rome and victims hope to attend venue to hear his evidenceSurvivors of child sexual abuse are crowdfunding to send representatives to Rome to hear Australia’s most senior Catholic,cardinal George Pell, give evidence before a child sex abuse royal commission via video link from 29 February.
Earlier this month Pell was cleared to give evidence approximately child sex abuse that occurred within Ballarat parishes while he was an assistant priest at Ballarat East via video rather than in person. The chair of the royal commission into institutional responses into child sexual abuse, and justice Peter McClellan,made the ruling.
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Source: theguardian.com