It's a complete beat up.
The police have already looked at it.
If he wasn't in the Church the ABC would have writs already. These complainents have an agenda.
It's a bit of a worry that these guys have waited untill now to come forward.
It all may be true, but can they prove it ?
I don't think much will come out of it as it seems to be their words against Pell's.
They havn't just come out with this. The investigation has been been running for at least a year. In February this year the Herald Sun ran an expose of the allegations. The 7.30 report was, in a sense, the result of the complainants wanting to keep the issue in the public eye.
Regarding proof ? There are three separate sets of allegations at different times with different people. They were multiple actions over a period of time. It wasn't a simple one off behaviour.
I suppose the job of the Office of Prosecutor is to examine the evidence offered and judge if it is strong enough to warrant a prosecution. There are also many people who were witness to the some of the events and it's possible the publicity will jog the memory of others who were also on location.
George Pell exposed himself to young boys at surf club, says Victorian man
Les Tyack, who reported to police the alleged 1980s incident involving the cardinal, has gone public in the hope it will support child sex abuse survivors
Melissa Davey
@MelissaLDavey
Thursday 28 July 2016 18.21 AEST
A man has spoken publicly about allegedly seeing Australia’s most senior Catholic, Cardinal George Pell, expose himself to a group of young boys at a surf lifesaving club in the late 1980s.
Les Tyack, from Victoria, who reported the alleged incident to police and also provided a statement to the royal commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse, has gone public with his story in the hope it will support survivors who have also spoken out about coverups and abuse by members of the hierarchy of the Catholic church.
Tyack told Guardian Australia: “I witnessed Pell involved in a situation where he very clearly exposed himself to three young boys at Torquay Life Saving Club in the summer of 1986 or 87.”
http://www.sbs.com.au/news/feature/girls-paedophile-and-cardinal-pellThe girls, the paedophile and Cardinal Pell
Words: Debi Marshall
Pictures: Paul Harris and Thom Rigney
Australia’s worst paedophile priest, Father Gerald Ridsdale, once lived with a young clergyman who is now Cardinal George Pell. As the Cardinal prepares to give evidence to the child abuse royal commission, two women break decades of silence to tell Debi Marshall about their ordeal in Ridsdale’s care – and their disappointment with Pell.
In 1973, a young Father George Pell, flushed with success from his recent studies in Rome and Oxford, returned to his home town of Ballarat and took up residence in the St Alipius presbytery; a place, it would be publicly revealed more than 20 years later, that was a paedophile’s paradise and a child’s nightmare.
His housemate that year was the tall, rowdy and popular parish priest, Father Gerald Ridsdale. What the parents and parishioners who worshipped God and obeyed the sanctity of the church and its messengers did not know was that from early in his priesthood, Ridsdale was subject to a psychiatric report. He was already a serial child abuser who sodomised children at will, picking them off when and where his desires dictated: in front of a church altar, at the presbytery, or on camping or fishing trips.
When he hurt them, he ignored their cries for him to stop. If they persisted in making a racket, he beat them. Badly.
In May 2015, the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse began an investigation into how Catholic Church authorities dealt with paedophile clergy in Ballarat and the impact of abuse. It heard that the diocese was a hotbed of scandal, cover-ups and paedophilia, and that vulnerable children – particularly orphans – had been prey to abusive clergy.
The hulking figure of Fr Ridsdale had given sermons from the pulpit while secretly running an unsophisticated, but terrifyingly effective paedophile ring. All three of Ridsdale’s Christian Brother cohorts - particularly Brother Robert Best - had also enjoyed uninterrupted access to vulnerable children, whom they handed around to each other to abuse.
In the Name of the Father
12 / 07 / 2012
Victoria Police are investigating 40 suicides in the graduate student body of St. Alipius school in Ballarat. All are thought to be linked to child sex offences committed decades ago by Catholic teachers and clergy affiliated with the school. In this piece, lawyer Viv Waller (representing victims of the Christian Brothers) examines the sinister realities of child sex abuse – the offences, the cover-ups and the untold damage done.
St Alipius, a Ballarat Christian Brothers School teaching grades 3–6, has the tragic distinction of being a school in which the entire male teaching staff was comprised of child sex offenders in 1971. The teachers were Christian Brother Robert Best, Brother Edward Dowlan, and Brother Stephen Farrell – all of whom have been convicted of child sex offences later in life. The School Chaplain was Father Gerald Ridsdale, another convicted child sex offender jailed in 1994. There are also many sexual assault allegations against Brother Fitzgerald, now deceased.
School Principal Robert Best was convicted of sexual offences against 11 victims, including two rape charges. The victims were all small school boys at St Alipius, and from two other schools Best subsequently taught at – St Leo’s in Box Hill and St Joseph’s in Geelong. One of Best’s rape victims reportedly confided in his class teacher. The Christian Brother forcibly and repeatedly struck the grade three child until he retracted the statement.
Complaints had been made about Best to the Christian Brothers yet he continued to teach. His convicted offences range from 1962 to 1986. We know also that on one occasion Best was interrupted by another Christian Brother, who, in a gross act of indifference to the child’s suffering, simply smiled and closed the door.
Father Ridsdale had been moved from parish to parish by the Archdiocese of Ballarat. There is evidence the Archdiocese knew of his sexual impropriety by the late 1960s or early 1970. Ridsdale was charged with 93 sexual offences against children in three separate criminal proceedings occurring in 1993, 1994 and 2006. He is currently serving a lengthy prison sentence for multiple counts of buggery and indecent assault upon children – his offences (at least those we know about) span a 26 year period.
Victoria Police are investigating 40 suicides in the graduate student body of St Alipius – all are thought to be linked to sexual offences by Best and Ridsdale.
Catholic clergy (including George Pell) looked the other way while Father Ridsdale continued committing more crimes against more children in more parishes
Background article by a Broken Rites researcher
This Broken Rites article is the most comprehensive account available about how the Catholic Church harboured this child-abuse criminal — Father Gerald Francis Ridsdale — for 30 years in western Victoria while his superiors and fellow-priests remained silent to protect the church's public image. In 1982, when Father Ridsdale had been abusing children for 20 years, a clergy committee (of which Father George Pell was a member) noted that Ridsdale was being transferred away from Victoria. Thus, he was inflicted on potential victims in New South Wales. Eventually, in 1993, Victoria Police detectives charged Ridsdale in court. He was accompanied to court by his support person, George Pell, who had become an assistant bishop in Melbourne. However, no bishop accompanied the victims. Encouraged by Broken Rites, more victims later spoke to the detectives. In his four court cases between 1993 and 2014, Ridsdale has been jailed for a minimum of 24 years for assaulting 54 of his victims. Broken Rites is proud of its role in exposing the church's cover-up of this criminal priest.
We berate the Muslims for trying it on having their own cancerous law within our own, but no one seems to cane this perverted mob for following their own cannon law invention.
Well, we are having a Royal Commission into the Catholic Church and it looks like a verbal caning if nothing else.
Will people be charged ? Let's hope so.
I hope the RC is extended into the Muslim community to check if any young Muslims girls have received any genital mutilation......The RC seems to be concentrating on the Catholic church.
Is the terms of reference confined to the Catholic church or all religions?
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