AUSTRALIA
Daily Mail
‘I am deeply committed to helping the survivors’: Cardinal George Pell FINALLY agrees to give evidence at Royal Commission into child sexual abuse
By LUCY THACKRAY and JOHN CARNEY FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA AND AUSTRALIAN ASSOCIATED PRESS
Cardinal George Pell has told the chair of the royal commission he’s prepared to give evidence in person ‘if needed’.
‘I want to make it absolutely clear that I am willing to give evidence should the commission request this, be it by statement, appearance by video link, or by attending personally,’ he said in the letter to Justice Peter McClellan on Tuesday night.
He also said he’d been horrified by the allegations of abuse in Ballarat and was ‘deeply saddened’ by the way church authorities dealt with reports of abuse.
Abuse victims have given evidence Pell bribed them to keep quiet, ignored complaints and was complicit in moving Australia’s worst pedophile priest Gerald Ridsdale to a different parish.
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