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14 March 2016

Australia: Victims decry cardinal's sex abuse denials

Sitting alone on a bench in Sydney's busy financial district, Darren Chalmers is surrounded by dozens of placards condemning the Roman Catholic Church's response to child sex abuse victims like himself.
Inside the building behind him, around 50 people, including a dozen victims, watch one of the Vatican's most powerful clergymen, Cardinal George Pell, testify, via a videolink from a hotel in Rome, as to what he knew about decades of sexual abuse within the church.

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2016/03/australia-victims-decry-cardinal-sex-abuse-denials-160303104413370.html