Monday, 24 May 2021, 1:25 pm
Auckland, New Zealand – 24th of May,
2021 – One
in five children will experience some form of sexual
abuse before their 18th birthday, and when assaults occur
within the family, sibling sexual assault is five
times more likely – and often far more violent –
than abuse from a trusted adult. We need to change the way
we listen to survivors’ stories, no matter how
uncomfortable they are to hear, and teach people their
secret is safe to tell.
This
is author Naomi Hunter’s truth. A survivor of child sexual
abuse and now an acclaimed children’s book author set out
Cardinal George Pell has admitted he was excessively optimistic he would be granted bail after being wrongly convicted of child sex abuse charges.
Australia s highest-ranking Catholic official was convicted in December 2018 of five counts of sexually abusing two 13-year-old choirboys at Melbourne s St Patrick s Cathedral in 1996.
He spent 404 days behind bars before his six-year jail sentence was overturned in a final appeal to the High Court in April 2020.
Pell, who turns 80 next month, has since returned to his life in Rome having left his job as prefect of the Vatican s economy ministry in 2017 to face the charges. Looking back, I was probably excessively optimistic that I d get bail, Pell said during a candid interview from his flat in the Italian city.
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Cardinal George Pell has revealed humiliating prison strip searches were the worst part about being in jail before his child sex abuse convictions were quashed.
Australia s highest-ranking Catholic official was wrongly convicted in December 2018 of five counts of sexually abusing two 13-year-old choirboys at Melbourne s St Patrick s Cathedral in 1996.
He spent 405 days behind bars before his six-year jail sentence was overturned in a final appeal to the High Court in April 2020.
Pell, 79, said there were times during his undignified stint behind bars when he thought he would have to wait until the Christian afterlife to be vindicated.
Cardinal George Pell presides over the mass at Barangaroo, Sydney for the opening of World Youth Day on Tuesday, July 15, 2008. He has told a radio interview (pictured) how the humiliation of prison strip searches was the worst part about being in jail