ROME/AUSTRALIA
IOL (South Africa)
By: AFP
Sydney – Evidence is emerging that Australian Cardinal George Pell covered up the sexual abuse of children by priests on his watch, survivors told AFP on Tuesday, on the sidelines of a hearing into the top Vatican official’s culpability.
“We’re starting to see solid evidence that he did cover it up, even though he’ll still deny it,” said Anthony Foster, father to two girls who were abused, one of whom went on to commit suicide while the other ended up in full-time care.
Vatican finance chief Pell has been giving evidence from a hotel in Rome via video-link to Australia’s Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in Sydney, under the watchful gaze of abuse victims.
“We hear stories from victims, and what has happened as the Royal Commission has progressed, those stories have been confirmed with solid evidence,” said Foster, who travelled to Rome with his wife for the four-day hearings.
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