The child sex abuse royal commission has
been told to reject evidence from Cardinal George Pell, the world’s
third most senior Catholic, regarding a former priest.
In
submissions by counsel assisting to case study 35 into the Melbourne
Archdiocese, Gail Furness SC and Stephen Free submitted that the
commission should reject Cardinal Pell’s evidence that he was
intentionally deceived by the Catholic Education Office regarding former
priest Peter Searson.They submitted the CEO should have done much more to respond to the obvious threat posed by Searson, however there was no evidence any of the officer at any time intentionally concealed from the Archdiocese information that it received about Searson.
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