Witness says her brother named Cardinal as perpetrator, but Pell’s barrister says she made it upA woman has told Melbourne magistrates court that her brother said a bishop had exposed himself to him while he was a choir boy and that the culprit was “fucking George Pell”. He exposed himself to me’,” the woman told the court. He said: ‘Fucking George Pell’, were his exact words.”Cardinal George Pell: court told archbishop robes could not be easily removed Read morePell’s defence barrister, Robert Richter QC, accused the woman of making up the part about Pell being named by her brother. The court also heard that a witness due to give evidence was medically unfit to do so, and therefore charges against Pell relating to him would be withdrawn. George Pell hearing told new allegations against cardinal have been made to police Read morePell, who is 76, is the highest-ranking Vatican official to be charged in the Catholic church’s long-running sexual abuse scandal.

Source: The Guardian March 23, 2018 05:48 UTC