Reuters, 03/03 16:10 CET
By Philip Pullella and Jane Wardell
ROME/SYDNEY (Reuters) –
Cardinal George Pell, under fire for his handling of sexual abuse of
children by priests in Australia, on Thursday acknowledged “the evil
that was done” and vowed to work with survivors to enact better
protection measures.
Pell, who gave four days of evidence via video link to an
Australian government commission, made the comments after a nearly
two-hour meeting in a Rome hotel with about a dozen Australian survivors
who had flown to Rome for the hearings.
Pell, now the Vatican’s treasurer, and the survivors met
for nearly four times as long as scheduled. Both the cardinal and a
spokesman for the survivors said it was highly emotional.
David Ridsdale, a survivor who alleges that in 1993 Pell
tried to bribe him to keep quiet about abuse by Ridsdale’s now jailed
priest uncle, said survivors were satisfied that the encounter took
place on “a level playing field”.
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