A government inquiry found that Cardinal George Pell knew that a pedophile priest had been sexually abusing children years before the man's arrest.
Pell was a Melbourne auxiliary bishop when he met with a staff delegation from a Catholic primary school to discuss complaints about Searson, whom the inquiry described as an “unstable and disturbed individual.”Complaints included that Searson harassed staff and parents, killed and tortured animals in front of children, threatened children with a pistol and a knife, showed children a body in a coffin and used the children’s toilets.
“Today’s released findings confirm what survivors and advocates already knew to be true — there has been a systematic failure of leadership within the Catholic Church for decades,” Leaney said.Get breaking news, investigations, analysis and more signature journalism from the Los Angeles Times in your inbox.
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