It
was not easy for Paul Levey to make it to Rome today to watch one of
the most senior officials in the Catholic church, Cardinal George Pell, face questions about what he knew about rampant sexual abuse in his former diocese in Australia.
The 47-year-old, who was sexually abused more than three decades ago by one of the most notorious pedophile priests in the church’s recorded history, needed doctors’ notes, an ultrasound for his leg, and even began taking blood thinners to prepare himself for the nearly 16,000km (10,000-mile) journey from Melbourne to Italy, with a 48-hour stopover in Abu Dhabi that was required on doctors orders because of a severe leg injury that requires him to walk with a cane. But he did it.
http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/feb/28/we-spoke-in-front-of-the-world-abuse-victims-in-rome-to-see-george-pell-testify?CMP=share_btn_fb#_=_
The 47-year-old, who was sexually abused more than three decades ago by one of the most notorious pedophile priests in the church’s recorded history, needed doctors’ notes, an ultrasound for his leg, and even began taking blood thinners to prepare himself for the nearly 16,000km (10,000-mile) journey from Melbourne to Italy, with a 48-hour stopover in Abu Dhabi that was required on doctors orders because of a severe leg injury that requires him to walk with a cane. But he did it.
http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/feb/28/we-spoke-in-front-of-the-world-abuse-victims-in-rome-to-see-george-pell-testify?CMP=share_btn_fb#_=_
