Victoria’s Top Cop Graham Ashton Reveals Detectives Might Go to Italy to Interview Pell over Child Sex Abuse Allegations

By Keith Moor
The Advertiser
June 17, 2016

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VICTORIA’s top cop has revealed detectives might go to Italy to interview Cardinal George Pell about child sex abuse allegations.

Chief Commissioner Graham Ashton was this week reluctant to talk about the Cardinal Pell probe during a wideranging interview with the Herald Sun to mark his first year in the job.

“We don’t give running commentary on ongoing investigations,” he said.

But comments Mr Ashton made when pressed by the Herald Sun confirmed Sano taskforce detectives are investigating multiple sexual abuse allegations made against Cardinal Pell.

The Herald Sun asked Mr Ashton if the Cardinal Pell investigation might result in Sano sex crime specialists being sent to the Vatican to speak to Cardinal Pell if he didn’t return to Australia.