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IT WAS a big week at the Royal Commission for Cardinal Pell.
With nearly 20 hours of testimony given over four nights covering four decades in country Victoria, there was a lot to get through.
As the evidence flowed thick and fast containing some extraordinary admissions, here are the crucial points you might have missed:
A BOY COMPLAINED TO PELL AND HE DID NOTHING
While much of the testimony centred around what Pell indirectly knew or didn’t know, there was a crucial moment in which Pell admitted a boy complained directly to him about Father Edward Dowlan “misbehaving with boys” and he did not follow it up.
“I didn’t do anything about it,” Pell told the Royal Commission adding that he eventually “enquired of the school chaplain.”
“With the experience of 40 years later I certainly agree I should have done more,” he said. When asked why he needed 40 years hindsight to have realised he should have done something he trotted out a now familiar line of “people had different attitudes then.”
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