Witnesses won’t be cross-examined on Cardinal George Pell bribery allegation

AUSTRALIA
The Age

May 22, 2015

Jane Lee

Church lawyers will not recall witnesses for cross-examination on allegations Cardinal George Pell tried to bribe a victim to silence him and ignored another’s reports children were being sexually abused.

A spokesman for the Catholic Church’s Truth Justice and Healing Council told media outside of the the royal commission into child sexual abuse that “we have determined that regardless of the position the commission is taking that it is not in the best interests of witnesses or anyone else that they be cross-examined”.

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