George Pell subject of Victoria Police investigation into multiple allegations of sexual abuse

[Eugene]

Source: Australian Broadcasting Company

George Pell subject of Victoria Police investigation into multiple allegations of sexual abuse

7.30 By Louise Milligan and Andy Burns
Updated about 10 hours ago

Police are investigating multiple child abuse allegations levelled directly against Australia's most senior Catholic cleric Cardinal George Pell, the ABC's 7.30 program has revealed.

Victoria Police's Taskforce SANO, which investigates complaints coming out of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, has been examining the allegations by complainants from Ballarat, Torquay and Melbourne for more than a year.

They include allegations about incidents which allegedly happened during Cardinal Pell's time as Archbishop of Melbourne in the 1990s.

7.30 understands that the Pell case has been referred by Victoria Police to the Office of Public Prosecutions for advice.

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Read more: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-07-27/victoria-police-investigating-george-pell-over-abuse-complaints/7664674

[edhopper]

1. Maybe he can get

a cushy job at the Vatican.

[Eugene]

2. He already has one. He's the Vatican treasurer.

Not mentioned in the ABC article but Reuters says so.

Australian police investigate Vatican treasurer over abuse: ABC

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-vatican-abuse-pell-idUSKCN1072OQ

[edhopper]

3. But of course

child rape seems to be the quickest way to Rome.