Cardinal George Pell is claiming now that he has "helped" the Catholic
Church's sex-abuse victims. Therefore, let's look at how Pell treated
one of the church's victims — a former altar boy, John Ellis. Cardinal
Pell (as head of the Sydney Catholic archdiocese) instigated the
archdiocese's legal battle against John Ellis, according to evidence and
documents presented to Australia's child-abuse Royal Commission.
Pell's legal victory in 2007 (known as the "Ellis defence") now forces church-victims to accept a discounted in-house "Towards Healing" settlement instead of suing for proper compensation, the Commission was told. And this Broken Rites article demonstrates that John Ellis was not the only victim of his abuser, Sydney priest Father Aidan Duggan.
http://www.brokenrites.org.au/drupal/node/280
Pell's legal victory in 2007 (known as the "Ellis defence") now forces church-victims to accept a discounted in-house "Towards Healing" settlement instead of suing for proper compensation, the Commission was told. And this Broken Rites article demonstrates that John Ellis was not the only victim of his abuser, Sydney priest Father Aidan Duggan.
http://www.brokenrites.org.au/drupal/node/280