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	Cardinal George Pell May Reopen Priest Sex Investigation Herald Sun July 10, 2008 http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,23997347-662,00.html [with video] CARDINAL George Pell will consider reopening a sex abuse investigation of a priest after explosive phone taps contradicted previous claims. The taps recorded Father Terrence Goodall admitting a sexual encounter was not consensual, as he first claimed. The ABC this week revealed Cardinal Pell had dismissed Anthony Jones's sex abuse complaint against Father Goodall because he gave more weight to the priest's claim the encounter was consensual. However, in police phone taps played on Lateline last night, Father Goodall is recorded saying to Mr Jones the encounter was not consensual. Speaking to Mr Jones after being interviewed by the church's investigator in January 2003, he said: "I certainly did not say it was consensual, I don't know where they got that from". Asked if the admission warranted a reopening of the case, Dr Pell said he would "certainly take legal advice". "Those statements of Goodall put my decision in quite a different light," he told the 7.30 Report.
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