AUSTRALIA
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AAP on February 6, 2017
A brief of evidence concerning historical claims of sexual abuse at the hands of Cardinal George Pell has been delivered to prosecutors for consideration.
Victoria Police confirmed with AAP on Monday night that investigators had delivered the brief to the Office of Public Prosecutions.
It’s a significant development in the case since three police travelled to Rome in October to speak with the former Ballarat priest and Melbourne archbishop.
Cardinal Pell now resides full-time at the Vatican.
He cited ill-health as a reason he could not travel back to Australia to give evidence in last year’s royal commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse, appearing instead via video link.
Allegations emerged in 2015 from two men who said they were groped as children by Cardinal Pell when he was a priest in Ballarat during the 1970s
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