Quote:When was he charged and convicted of those crimes?
Quote:Did I say he had?
I said he should be
Don't be a f*#kwit.
Quote:So how can you say he's guilty?
Quote:He was in charge of moving them ... & sometimes same priest more than once because of complaints from parents.
All swept under the carpet.
cease being such a twerp.
Quote:This all came out in court, did it?
Do you actually think you're clever?
It came out through several investigations & the Royal into child sexual abuse.
I explained it wasn't in this particular case.
But had not the charges been laid in this case you should have been well aware of the accusations of Pells culpability in the covering up & moving paedo priests you Arseclown.
Quote:Diocese of Armidale
See also: Roman Catholic Diocese of Armidale
This diocese incorporates 25 parishes and 24 schools within about 90,000 km˛[30] and is clearly, one of, if not the highest density locations of Catholic Child Sexual Abuse in Australia on a per capita basis. The extraordinary and shocking story of 'Father F', later to be identified as former Armidale local, and former Catholic Priest John Joseph Farrell, was central to the ABC Television program Four Corners expose "Unholy Silence".[31] This was first broadcast on Monday 2 July 2012[32] and was potentially the final trigger that led to then Prime Minister Julia Gillard announcing the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. The reaction of Armidale locals to the program was strong and one of indignation that something should have been done sooner by the Catholic Church.[33] Case Study 44 of the Royal Commission (Held Monday 19 to Thursday 22 September 2016[34]) focused specifically on this case of a former Catholic Priest abusing children over a 20-year period and the alleged cover-up by the Church hierarchy including Father Bernard Flood, Father Richard Gleeson, Monsignor Wayne Peters (Dec), Father Brian Lucas, Monsignor John Usher, Bishop Gerard Hanna (Ret), Bishop Bede Heather (Ret), Bishop Luc Matthys, (most of whom gave evidence to the Royal Commission[35]), and even Australia's most senior Catholic Cardinal George Pell.[36]
On November 1, 2019, former Diocese of Armidale priest David Perrett plead not guilty to 139 charges of child sexual assault at a number of locations, including Armidale, Guyra, Walgett, Moree, Penrith, Bundarra, Lower Creek, and Sawtell between the 1960s and 1990s.[37] Perrett, aged 82, had been arrested for these charges and was denied bail in August 2018,[38] but was later granted bail in April 2019 after he was told he had only six months to a year to live.[39]
Quote:Diocese of Parramatta
In 1992, after allegations arose that a priest had been sexually abusing some of his parishioners, a meeting was held between the accused priest and three senior members of clergy. As a result of the meeting the priest was banned from conducting Mass, but was otherwise permitted to continue serving as a priest. The priest was laicised in 2005. In 2012, allegations arose through the Four Corners television program that the priest admitted to child sexual abuse at the 1992 meeting, and that the senior clergy present chose not to report the allegations to police. Cardinal George Pell subsequently denied that the priest admitted to sexual abuse at the meeting.[73]
In February 2010, Fr. Robert MacGregor Fuller began serving a 6-18 month sentence months after pleading guilty to sending both a sexually lurid video broadcast of himself and sexually lurid text messages to a 13-year-old girl in the summer of 2009.
Quote:On 21 August 2019, Ballarat Bishop Paul Bird acknowledged that Pell, who had lost his appeal in the state of Victoria, had ties to this Melbourne suffragan diocese and apologized for the history of sex abuse in the Diocese as well.[122]
On 6 September 2019, the Diocese of Ballarat released a statement admitting that the high-ranking clergy in the Diocese knew of sex abuse claims against Gerald Ridsdale and afterwards made efforts to shield Ridsdale from prosecution.[123] This confession came in the wake of civil lawsuit filed against the Diocese by one of Ridsdale's victims.[123]
In addition to the Archdiocese of Melbourne sex abuse charges, Pell also faces numerous sex abuse charges stemming from his time in the Diocese of Ballarat.[124] The 3 episode miniseries Revelation, which aired on ABC TV on March 17, March 31 and April 2, 2020,[125] revealed two men, identified as Bernie and Peter Clarke, who accused Pell of sexually abusing them as boys when he served at the Catholic-run orphanage where they resided in the 1970s.[126] The new sex abuse allegations against Pell were also investigated by Australian journalist Sarah Ferguson.[127] Despite the fact that his sex abuse convictions related to his time in Archdiocese of Melbourne were later overturned, Pell still faces 10 civil lawsuits stemming from his time in the Diocese of Ballarat
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