Bobby. wrote on Mar 2
nd, 2016 at 7:43pm:
Aussie wrote on Mar 2
nd, 2016 at 7:29pm:
Sir Bobby, I'm certain there will be accomplice provisions up here, and maybe even conspiracy stuff which might include the actions of anyone who attempted to hide the commission of an offence not committed by them.
Well then it's time that Pell faced a trial.
has he been charged with a crime.. bobs..
lets see if one of the teary ones take him to court???..
and see how his memory stacks up then...I am sure their time will come just like those who took Harris and Roberts and now Cosby to court..
you can run but you cant hide indefinitely...
Quote:Pell has maintained he never knew about Ridsdale’s preying on children until around 1990, three years before Ridsdale was charged, and didn’t even hear gossip about it in the years he was a priest in the same diocese.
Gail Furness, SC, assisting the commission, was clearly sceptical.
She repeatedly asked how Pell could not have known about Ridsdale’s abuse of children when it was known by several fellow priests — including a cousin and friends of Pell — as well as by his bishop, a school principal, a doctor, a policemen, drinkers at the Apollo Bay pub, and several parents and children at schools in three towns in the Ballarat diocese.
And this when Pell was the episcopal vicar for education in the diocese. At the very least, he seems to have failed in his job.
Pell offered various reasons — or excuses. His role as vicar was not actually an executive one. The time he could give to it was “limited” by his full-time job running a teachers’ college.
He was often in Melbourne and so “I certainly was not plugged into the life of the diocese”. And he was not one for gossip, saying priests were actually “the most secretive of people” and quoting a church saying: “Those who know don’t say; those who say don’t know.”
funny the things he remembers