AUSTRALIA
Associated Press
February 26, 2019
By Peter Mitchell
US victims of clergy abuse have welcomed Cardinal George Pell’s child rape conviction in Australia.
America’s largest support group for survivors, St Louis-based Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, said Pell’s prosecution offered two lessons.
“First, police and prosecutors are doing what popes and prelates are NOT doing – exposing child-molesting clerics,” SNAP said in a statement.
“Second, kids can be protected from even powerful and politically connected predators if survivors are smart and brave enough to trust law enforcement.”
Pell, Australia’s highest-ranking Catholic, raped a choirboy in the 1990s in Melbourne and molested another.
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