AUSTRALIA
The Australian
BY MEGAN NEIL AAP MAY 27, 2015
THEY shared a presbytery and had enough of a relationship for George Pell to accompany his fellow priest to court, yet Gerald Ridsdale has little recollection of the cardinal.
THAT Australia’s worst pedophile priest has no memory of living with the nation’s most senior Catholic figure has angered victims, even though Cardinal Pell now says he’s prepared to appear in person before the child sex abuse royal commission’s Ballarat inquiry.
In his own much-anticipated appearance, Ridsdale maintained he remembered little of his former house mate.
Ridsdale told the commission he can’t remember any of the priests who lived at the Ballarat East presbytery with him in the early 1970s, even then Father Pell.
“I’ve been told that but I can’t remember actually being there with George,” Ridsdale said via videolink from prison.
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