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Am I the only one who is troubled by this statement of his?
www.theguardian.com
Granted the charges against him were nonsense, it was right to acquit him. But people rallied to his side and championed him. I just find it hard to square that with such a cold and heartless statement.
Does anyone else feel this way?
Pell told the royal commission in 2016 that although he lived and worked alongside the notorious paedophile priest Gerald Ridsdale in the 1970s, Ridsdale’s abusing “was a sad story and of not much interest to me”. “I had no reason to turn my mind to the evils Ridsdale had perpetrated,” he told the commission.

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Granted the charges against him were nonsense, it was right to acquit him. But people rallied to his side and championed him. I just find it hard to square that with such a cold and heartless statement.
Does anyone else feel this way?