Clergy Sexual Abuse Victims Call for Cardinal George Pell to Be Stood down in Wake of Charges

By Melissa Cunningham
Sydney Morning Herald
June 29, 2017

http://www.smh.com.au/national/clergy-sexual-abuse-victims-call-for-cardinal-george-pell-to-be-stood-down-in-wake-of-charges-20170629-gx0x05.html

Clergy sexual abuse victims have called for Cardinal George Pell to be immediately stood down from his powerful Vatican post in the wake of historical sexual abuse charges being laid against him.

Victoria Police has confirmed Cardinal Pell, has been charged on summons over multiple allegations against multiple victims and is due to face Melbourne Magistrates Court on July 18 for a filing hearing.

Clergy sexual abuse victim Andrew Collins said it was incumbent on Pope Francis to stand down Cardinal Pell from his position as head of the Catholic church's finances.

Mr Collins was one of 15 Ballarat clergy sexual abuse survivors who travelled 16,000 kilometres to Rome to bear witness to Cardinal Pell's evidence to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse last year.