ROME
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A group of child sex abuse survivors say they’ve given up on Cardinal George Pell after hearing his evidence to a royal commission and have appealed directly to the Pope to ensure children are protected.
The group, many of whom were abused as children by pedophile priests in the Catholic diocese of Ballarat in Victoria, has been in Rome to hear the cardinal give evidence to the child sex abuse royal commission.
But on Tuesday night they told journalists they had sent a letter seeking a meeting with Pope Francis and were no longer seeking a meeting with Cardinal Pell.
He is being questioned over what he knew of pedophile priests in the Ballarat and Melbourne dioceses when he held senior church posts there in the 1970s, 80s and 90s.
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