Painful search for the truth in the Goerge Pell saga

There can be only two possibilities in this saga: either the self-alleged victims are telling the truth, or George Pell is telling the truth (“Coincidental pursuit of Pell poisons atmosphere”, 29/7). The tragedy of alleged child sexual abuse, whether it occurs in families or in institutions, is that generally there are no third-party witnesses, and as the royal commission has painfully revealed, the power of the adult perpetrators combined with all-too-common cover-ups in institutions and families, conspire to silence victims and condemn them (without trial) to a life of shame, self-doubt and depression.

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