Pell Denies Having Timely Knowledge of Abuse of Children by Notorious Australian Priest

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Gerard O'Connell | Mar 1 2016 - 10:58am | 0 comments

Gail Furness, senior counsel, stands in front of a screen displaying Australian Cardinal George Pell as he holds a Bible while appearing via video link from a hotel in Rome, Italy, to testify at the Australia's Royal Commission Into Institutional Response to Child Sexual Abuse in Sydney, Feb. 29 (CNS photo/Reuters handout).

Cardinal George Pell categorically denied having any timely knowledge of the crimes of Australia’s most notorious pedophile priest, Gerald Ridsdale, in his second day of testimony, via video conference from Rome, to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in Sydney.
While serving as a priest, Ridsdale abused a large number of children in the city of Ballarat and Victoria state between 1960 and 1987, and was convicted between 1993 and 2013 for the sexual abuse of 54 of them. He has been laicized and is currently serving a prison sentence. 
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