AUSTRALIA
Sky News
Convicted paedophile priest Gerald Francis Ridsdale has told the child abuse royal commission he did not have a particularly close relationship with Cardinal George Pell and did not discuss his offending with him.
‘I never had much to do with him’, he said.
Ridsdale says he can’t remember having any dealings with now-Cardinal George Pell, despite living in the Ballarat East presbytery with him.
Ridsdale also said he can’t remember asking then-Father Pell what he would say on his behalf at Ridsdale’s first court appearance in 1993, when the two were photographed together.
In May 1993, Cardinal Pell accompanied Ridsdale to court in Melbourne where he pleaded guilty to 30 charges of indecent assault.
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